ABSTRACT

In Protothetic expressions associated with the semantical category of propositions are the central concern, whereas names, or name-like expressions inspire the inner structure of the truths of Ontology. The present remarks, intended as ad hoc aids in learning the vocabulary of Ontology, standO quite outside ntology itself. At this point any means is good which serves its purpose. One informal and pre-systematic way of introducing the reader to the sense of certain constant terms which occur in Ontology is by means of an extension of the familiar diagrams of Euler into an Ontological Table. On the assumption that logical discourse is essentially neutral as regards existence—a desideratum which will be shown to be fulfillable in Ontology, but not in certain other systems—it is clear that while. Some re-parsing is possible in Ontology, and it may well turn out that existence-predicates differ from others in all sorts of ways.