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Single Idea 12780
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science
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Full Idea
We can grasp the wisdom of God a priori, and not from the order of the phenomena alone. ... For the senses put nothing forward concerning metaphysical matters.
Gist of Idea
We can grasp the wisdom of God a priori
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Des Bosses [1715], 1716.05.29)
Book Ref
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'Philosophical Essays', ed/tr. Arlew,R /Garber,D [Hackett 1989], p.202
A Reaction
Nice instance of the aspirations of big metaphysics, before Kant cut it down to size. The claim is not far off Plato's, that by dialectic we can work out the necessities of the Forms, to which even the gods must bow. Are necessities really kept from us?
The
20 ideas
with the same theme
[metaphysics as transcending natural science]:
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12119
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Physics studies transitory matter; metaphysics what is abstracted and necessary
[Bacon]
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12120
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Physics is of material and efficient causes, metaphysics of formal and final causes
[Bacon]
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12914
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Metaphysics is geometrical, resting on non-contradiction and sufficient reason
[Leibniz]
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12780
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We can grasp the wisdom of God a priori
[Leibniz]
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9752
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Kant showed that theoretical reason cannot give answers to speculative metaphysics
[Kant, by Korsgaard]
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6584
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A priori metaphysics is fond of basic unchanging entities like God, the soul, Forms, atoms…
[Kant, by Fogelin]
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9349
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A dove cutting through the air, might think it could fly better in airless space (which Plato attempted)
[Kant]
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3722
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Metaphysics goes beyond the empirical, so doesn't need examples
[Kant]
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6203
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Metaphysics is just a priori universal principles of physics
[Kant]
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21474
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Metaphysics studies the inexplicable ends of explanation
[Schopenhauer]
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19229
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Metaphysics is the science of both experience, and its general laws and types
[Peirce]
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5182
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Claims about 'the Absolute' are not even verifiable in principle
[Ayer on Bradley]
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19199
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Some say metaphysics is a highly generalised empirical study of objects
[Tarski]
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18390
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All metaphysical discussion should be guided by a quest for truthmakers
[Armstrong]
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2546
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Philosophy is a magnificent failure in its attempt to overstep the limits of our knowledge
[McGinn]
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17275
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Realist metaphysics concerns what is real; naive metaphysics concerns natures of things
[Fine,K]
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8282
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Only metaphysics can decide whether identity survives through change
[Lowe]
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16127
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Metaphysics tells us what there could be, rather than what there is
[Lowe]
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16415
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Esoteric metaphysics aims to be top science, investigating ultimate reality
[Hofweber]
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22611
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Metaphysics can criticise interpretations of science theories, and give good feedback
[Ingthorsson]
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