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Single Idea 14767
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics
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Full Idea
The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine.
Gist of Idea
The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (Concerning the Author [1897], p.2)
Book Ref
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Philosophical Writings of Peirce', ed/tr. Buchler,Justus [Dover 1940], p.2
Related Idea
Idea 14764
I am saturated with the spirit of physical science [Peirce]
The
14 ideas
with the same theme
[rejections of metaphysics as a worthwhile activity]:
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12767
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Kant exposed the illusions of reason in the Transcendental Dialectic
[Kant, by Fraassen]
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3301
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On the continent it is generally believed that metaphysics died with Hegel
[Benardete,JA on Hegel]
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14767
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The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine
[Peirce]
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14860
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Kant has undermined our belief in metaphysics
[Nietzsche]
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6864
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Metaphysics is finding bad reasons for instinctive beliefs
[Bradley]
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13737
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The empiricist says that metaphysics is meaningless, rather than false
[Schlick]
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16252
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Metaphysics uses empty words, or just produces pseudo-statements
[Carnap]
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7919
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Humeans rejected the a priori synthetic, and so rejected even Kantian metaphysics
[Ayer, by Macdonald,C]
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12325
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Philosophy has been relieved of physics, cosmology, politics, and now must give up ontology
[Badiou]
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15054
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'Quietist' says abandon metaphysics because answers are unattainable (as in Kant's noumenon)
[Fine,K]
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17713
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After 1903, Husserl avoids metaphysical commitments
[Mares]
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16276
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Wide metaphysical possibility may reduce metaphysics to analysis of fantasies
[Maudlin]
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16413
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Science has discovered properties of things, so there are properties - so who needs metaphysics?
[Hofweber]
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21666
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'Fundamentality' is either a superficial idea, or much too obscure
[Hofweber]
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