Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Parmenides, Tertullian and E.J. Lowe
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics
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Metaphysics is the mapping of possibilities [Lowe, by Mumford]
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Science needs metaphysics to weed out its presuppositions [Lowe, by Hofweber]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems
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Metaphysics aims to identify categories of being, and show their interdependency [Lowe]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science
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Metaphysics is concerned with the fundamental structure of reality as a whole [Lowe]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science
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Only metaphysics can decide whether identity survives through change [Lowe]
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Metaphysics tells us what there could be, rather than what there is [Lowe]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual
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Maybe such concepts as causation, identity and existence are primitive and irreducible [Lowe]
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Philosophy aims not at the 'analysis of concepts', but at understanding the essences of things [Lowe]
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