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I 31
Names/Ontology/Meixner: "That Regensburg is located on the Danube" is a name for a fact-like entity - "being square": name, but not for an individual or a fact-like entity, but name for a property. (property name)
I 42
Properties/(s): Names of properties are expressions with hyphens: e.g. "example-of-the-length-of-Manhattan-in-miles" - e.g. "my-being-176-cm-tall-at-t0" are names of properties - ((s) properties themselves without hyphen!)
I 50
Exemplification/Identity/Meixner: Object X is F, this is not an identity of X and F, of the object with its property, but the property is exemplified by the object
I 73
Property/Meixner: nothing other than function. This property, when saturated with the individual Hans, again results in the fact that Hans is a human
I 75~
Property/Meixner 2nd level: Properties of properties: "the property of being a trait of x" - e.g. being egoistic is the property of being a trait - not 2nd level: e.g. being 2 meters tall - e.g. property of being a trait cannot be said of people or cities (pointless), but it can be (erroneously) said of the property of being 2 meters tall.
I 76
Individual properties ("initial properties")/Meixner: exactly expressable about individuals, not something that only individuals can have - there are cases where properties which cannot be expressed exactly about I can still apply to I.
I 78
Ontological/Property/Meixner: Distinction between relational and non-relational properties is ontological - non-ontological: distinction between negative and non-negative or between disjunctive and non-disjunctive properties.
I 150
Properties/Meixner: Identity principle for individual properties: they can be satisfied by exactly the same entities -for all individual property F and G: F is identical to G if and only if for all individuals x applies: = - for triangles: equiangular and equilateral ones are fulfilled by the same entities.
I 153 ~
Universal Name: means the property.


Mei I
U. Meixner
Einführung in die Ontologie Darmstadt 2004

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