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  • Pertaining to that which is without; external; objective; sensible.

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Examples

  • Ideas may have or represent or refer to an object and are called objectual [gegenständlich] or may be without object, objectless, empty [gegenstandslos, leer].

    Bolzano's Logic Sebestik, Jan 2007

  • Marcus herself proposes the substitutional reading of quantification to skirt the need for non-actual possible objects (Marcus 1976), and later suggests combining it with objectual quantification over actual objects (Marcus 1985/86).

    Possible Objects Yagisawa, Takashi 2009

  • Some perceptualists might describe the proper intentional or representational content of experiences in less objectual terms by not naming what is represented in terms of ordinary objects like apples and tables.

    Pain Aydede, Murat 2009

  • Here are only the definitions of the most important of them for pairs of objectual ideas, written in our symbolic language (the objectuality condition excludes the definition of contradiction for ideas having the broadest possible extension).

    Bolzano's Logic Sebestik, Jan 2007

  • The idea of function is just as objectual as the idea of a horse, but in the case of the idea of a horse, one should add that it is an idea of a real being.

    Bolzano's Logic Sebestik, Jan 2007

  • So provided that we are consistent in our comparisons of objectual and propositional understanding on the one hand, and objectual and propositional knowledge on the other, Kvanvig fails to make a sound case for thinking that understanding is of greater value than knowledge.

    The Value of Knowledge Pritchard, Duncan 2007

  • This requirement entails that understanding is directly factive in the case of propositional understanding and indirectly factive in the case of objectual understanding (i.e., the agent needs to have at least mostly true beliefs about the target subject matter in order to be truly said to have objectual understanding of that subject matter).

    The Value of Knowledge Pritchard, Duncan 2007

  • Wolfgang Künne (2003) takes the existential quantifier to be an objectual

    The Deflationary Theory of Truth Stoljar, Daniel 2007

  • More specifically, Brogaard claims that we can distinguish between objectual and propositional knowledge just as we can distinguish between objectual and propositional understanding.

    The Value of Knowledge Pritchard, Duncan 2007

  • The ideas admitted for substitution cannot transform an objectual proposition into an empty (non-objectual) one.

    Bolzano's Logic Sebestik, Jan 2007

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