Terence Dwight Parsons (1939–2022)[1] was an American philosopher, specializing in philosophy of language and metaphysics.
Parsons was born in Endicott, New York and graduated from the University of Rochester with a BA in physics.
[2] In 2007, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
[3] Parsons worked on the semantics of natural language to develop theories of truth and meaning for natural language similar to those devised for artificial languages by philosophical logicians.
[4] Heavily influenced by Alexius Meinong, he wrote Nonexistent Objects (1980), which dealt with possible world theory in order to defend the reality of nonexistent objects.