Edward N. Zalta

PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1981, both in philosophy.^[5] Zalta has taught courses at Stanford University, Rice University, the University of Salzburg, and the University of Auckland. Zalta is also the Principal Editor of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.^[6]

round square, and the mountain made entirely of gold) merely encode them.^[8] While the objects that exemplify properties are discovered through traditional empirical means, a simple set of axioms allows us to know about objects that encode properties.^[9] For every set of properties, there is exactly one object that encodes exactly that set of properties and no others.^[10] This allows for a formalized ontology