Etymology

Meinong's jungle

Today it means: The repository of nonexistent objects (thought to have some form of existence because they can be referred to), in the ontology of Alexius Meinong. Full definition →

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The story

Coined by Richard Routley in 1980.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.