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Full Idea
The 'quietist' view of metaphysics says that realist metaphysics should be abandoned, not because its questions cannot be framed, but because their answers cannot be found. The real world of metaphysics is akin to Kant's noumenal world.
Gist of Idea
'Quietist' says abandon metaphysics because answers are unattainable (as in Kant's noumenon)
Source
Kit Fine (The Question of Realism [2001], 4)
Book Ref
-: 'Philosophers' Imprint' [-], p.14
A Reaction
[He cites Blackburn, Dworkin, A.Fine, and Putnam-1987 as quietists] Fine aims to clarify the concepts of factuality and of ground, in order to show that metaphysics is possible.
Related Idea
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