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Full Idea
We need to straddle both of Carnap's internal and external views. It is only by standing outside of reality that we are able to occupy a standpoint from which the constitution of reality can be adequately described.
Gist of Idea
For ontology we need, not internal or external views, but a view from outside reality
Source
Kit Fine (The Question of Ontology [2009], p.174)
Book Ref
'Metametaphysics', ed/tr. Chalmers/Manley/Wasserman [OUP 2009], p.174
A Reaction
See Idea 4840! I thoroughly approve of this idea, which almost amounts to a Credo for the modern metaphysician. Since we can think outside our room, or our country, or our era, or our solar system, I think we can do what Fine is demanding.
Related Ideas
Idea 4840 Reason perceives things under a certain form of eternity [Spinoza]
Idea 13933 Existence questions are 'internal' (within a framework) or 'external' (concerning the whole framework) [Carnap]
| 22979 | Three main questions seem to be whether a thing is, what it is, and what sort it is [Augustine] |
| 13933 | Existence questions are 'internal' (within a framework) or 'external' (concerning the whole framework) [Carnap] |
| 6523 | Positivists regard ontology as either meaningless or stipulated [Ayer, by Robinson,H] |
| 12210 | Quine's ontology is wrong; his question is scientific, and his answer is partly philosophical [Fine,K on Quine] |
| 12320 | Ontology is (and always has been) Cantorian mathematics [Badiou] |
| 7679 | Ontology is the same as the conceptual foundations of logic [Jacquette] |
| 12217 | For ontology we need, not internal or external views, but a view from outside reality [Fine,K] |
| 14594 | Ontologists seek existence and identity conditions, and modal and epistemic status for a thing [Swoyer] |
| 3517 | 'Ontology' means 'study of things which exist' [Maslin] |
| 4474 | Existence theories must match experience, possibility, logic and knowledge, and not be self-defeating [Moreland] |
| 13925 | Ontology disputes rest on more basic explanation disputes [Haslanger] |
| 23768 | A metaphysic is a set of wider explanations derived from a basic ontology [Williams,NE] |
| 23773 | Humeans say properties are passive, possibility is vast, laws are descriptions, causation is weak [Williams,NE] |
| 23779 | We shouldn't posit the existence of anything we have a word for [Williams,NE] |
| 23786 | The status quo is part of what exists, and so needs metaphysical explanation [Williams,NE] |