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Single Idea 16931
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics
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Full Idea
The generation of knowledge a priori, both according to intuition and according to concepts, and finally the generation of synthetic propositions a priori in philosophical knowledge, constitutes the essential content of metaphysics.
Gist of Idea
Metaphysics is generating a priori knowledge by intuition and concepts, leading to the synthetic
Source
Immanuel Kant (Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic [1781], 274)
Book Ref
Kant,Immanuel: 'Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic', ed/tr. Lucas,Peter G. [Manchester UP 1971], p.24
A Reaction
By 'concepts' he implies mere analytic thought, so 'intuition' is where the exciting bit is, and that is rather vague.
Related Idea
Idea 7919
Humeans rejected the a priori synthetic, and so rejected even Kantian metaphysics [Ayer, by Macdonald,C]
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28 ideas
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[nature of the most abstract philosophy]:
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Understanding begins with the notion of being and essence
[Avicenna]
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12124
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Metaphysics is the best knowledge, because it is the simplest
[Bacon]
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9438
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Maybe analysis seeks the 'nominal essence', and metaphysics seeks the 'real essence'
[Locke, by Mumford]
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13086
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Metaphysics is a science of the intelligible nature of being
[Leibniz, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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21954
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Metaphysics is a systematic account of everything that can be known a priori
[Kant]
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Metaphysics is generating a priori knowledge by intuition and concepts, leading to the synthetic
[Kant]
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15631
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The ideal of reason is the unification of abstract identity (or 'concept') and being
[Hegel]
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16011
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Hegel doesn't storm the heavens like the giants, but works his way up by syllogisms
[Kierkegaard on Hegel]
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19218
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Metaphysics is pointless without exact modern logic
[Peirce]
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19638
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Metaphysics is a universalisation of physical anguish
[Cioran]
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13736
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Quinean metaphysics just lists the beings, which is a domain with no internal structure
[Schaffer,J on Quine]
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7920
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Descriptive metaphysics aims at actual structure, revisionary metaphysics at a better structure
[Strawson,P]
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14611
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Metaphysics should avoid talk of past, present or future
[Smart]
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12667
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Metaphysics aims at the simplest explanation, without regard to testability
[Ellis]
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16440
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I don't think Lewis's cost-benefit reflective equilibrium approach offers enough guidance
[Stalnaker]
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21959
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Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things
[Moore,AW]
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11912
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Substantive metaphysics says what a property is, not what a predicate means
[Molnar]
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3358
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Metaphysics focuses on Platonism, essentialism, materialism and anti-realism
[Benardete,JA]
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10468
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A metaphysics has an ontology (objects) and an ideology (expressed ideas about them)
[Oliver]
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14250
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Metaphysics deals with the existence of things and with the nature of things
[Fine,K]
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16414
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Science needs metaphysics to weed out its presuppositions
[Lowe, by Hofweber]
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9414
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Metaphysics is the mapping of possibilities
[Lowe, by Mumford]
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You cannot understand what exists without understanding possibility and necessity
[Hale]
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21634
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Metaphysics is (supposedly) first the ontology, then in general what things are like
[Hofweber]
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13734
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Modern Quinean metaphysics is about what exists, but Aristotelian metaphysics asks about grounding
[Schaffer,J]
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24069
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Much metaphysical debate concerns what is fundamental, rather than what exists
[Koslicki]
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18859
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Metaphysics is a quest for truthmakers
[Tallant]
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17266
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Using modal logic, philosophers tried to handle all metaphysics in modal terms
[Correia/Schnieder]
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