Overview
Roughly speaking, permissivism refers to the stance that everything that can be described without (at least obvious) contradiction exists. Generally speaking, permissivists tend to think the question of whether or not things exist is trivial to answer.
Bibliography
- Francesco Orilia and Michele Paolini Paoletti, “Properties,” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta, Spring 2022 (Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2022), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2022/entries/properties/.
- Nikk Effingham, An Introduction to Ontology (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013).
- Simon Hewitt, “A Cardinal Worry for Permissive Metaontology,” Metaphysica 16, no. 2 (September 18, 2015): 159–65, https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2015-0009.