Category: Grossmann, Reinhardt
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Reinhardt Grossmann (1931-2010)
An obituary by his Indiana University colleague, Nino Cocchiarella. "Grossmann was well known among his colleagues for his eagerness to discuss philosophical problems and to engage in sustained debate on fundamental positions." Sounds right. When I, a stranger, wrote Grossmann sometime in the '80s and posed some questions for him, he responded in a thorough…
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Reinhardt Grossmann Against Modes of Being
Here is a plausible principle: if n items stand in an n-adic relation, then all of them exist. And necessarily so. If Miami is between Superior and Globe, then all three towns exist. Combine this principle about relations with the plausible idea that the intentional nexus is a dyadic relation that relates a thinker (or…