Ontological Dependence, Spatial Location, and Part Structure
Friederike Moltmann · Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications · 2019
This paper presents new observations about ontologically dependent objects which cannot have a host-independent spatial location or a physical part structure, namely disturbances (holes, folds, scratches), tropes, and attitudinal objects (claims, thoughts, promises, requests). It proposes an account of such attributively limited objects in terms of Fregean abstraction, which has so far been applied only to abstract objects.