Pattern realism is true. A philosophical study of some Mediaeval theories of signification and mental representation and their bearing on contemporary problems in Cognitive Science. See The Paidea Project On Line for a list of the papers presented at the Congress. It is then shown how, in terms of this account, the truth conditions of English belief reports may be captured in a formally precise and empirically adequate way that accords genuinely semantic status to familiar opacity data. They are objective correlates of judgements and they have an existence independent of propositions and of acts of judging.
States of affairs have different properties.
One of the most important is that they are bearers of ontological modalities. In this respect the analysis of the different classes of modalities needs to be completed for ontological investigations which make clear the several types of essences and the laws which are grounded in these essences. The article attempts to explain Husserl's notion of formal ontology. It investigates the relation between formal and material ontology as well as the relation between epistemic and metaphysical necessity. The article provides an interpretation of Husserl's claim that there are metaphysical necessities which are necessarily recognized by the human mind on the basis of Husserl's well-known distinction between the meanings of mental acts and their objective correlates.