The Conceptions of Negative States of Affairs (Meinong, Reinach, Ingarden)

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to analize the cognitive and existential status of negative state affairs, defined as the ontological correlates of the true negative logical judgements. I take up this issue on the basis of the three phenomenological conceptions, created by Meinong, Reinach and Ingarden. After analysing all conceptions I reject the two first solutions, which are homogeneous and objective (respectively: idealistic and realistic) and argue for the heterogenous solution proposed by Ingarden. It is because only the last one doesn't confuse the criterion of the truth with the criterion of the existence.