艺术作品的存在论性质一直是一个充满争议的问题。例如,有些人认为艺术作品是物理对象,有些人则认为是抽象结构、想像实体、行动类符或形符(action types 0r tokens),等等。事实上,几乎所有存在论范畴都曾被用于说明艺术作品的性质。本文试图运用英伽登和托马森(Amie The ontological nature of the work of art has always been a matter of controversy. For example, some people think of works of art as physical objects, others as abstract structures, imagining entities, action types or other tokens, and so on. In fact, almost all categories of ontology have been used to illustrate the nature of works of art. This article attempts to use Ingarden and Thomason (Amie