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Single Idea 21408
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual
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Full Idea
A philosophy of any subject (a system of rational knowledge from concepts) requires a system of pure rational concepts independent of any conditions of intuition, that is, a metaphysics.
Clarification
'Intuition' is here (roughly) experience
Gist of Idea
For any subject, its system of non-experiential concepts needs a metaphysics
Source
Immanuel Kant (Metaphysics of Morals II:Doctrine of Virtue [1797], 375 Pref)
Book Ref
Kant,Immanuel: 'The Metaphysics of Morals', ed/tr. Gregor,Mary [CUP 1991], p.181
A Reaction
'Pure rational concepts' must be a priori, and (in Kant's case) transcendental - i.e. discovered from the study of presuppositions. Does this actually say that the philosophies of science, biology, psychology, economics etc each needs a metaphysics?
The
24 ideas
with the same theme
[metaphysics as study of our conceptual schemes]:
21408
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For any subject, its system of non-experiential concepts needs a metaphysics
[Kant]
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21768
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Logic is metaphysics, the science of things grasped in thoughts
[Hegel]
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22077
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Metaphysics is the lattice which makes incoming material intelligible
[Hegel]
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21761
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If we start with indeterminate being, we arrive at being and nothing as a united pair
[Hegel, by Houlgate]
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21764
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Thought about being leads to a string of other concepts, like becoming, quantity, specificity, causality...
[Hegel, by Houlgate]
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21769
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We must start with absolute abstraction, with no presuppositions, so we start with pure being
[Hegel]
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12112
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Metaphysics is just the oversubtle qualification of abstract names for phenomena
[Comte]
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19219
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Metaphysical reasoning is simple enough, but the concepts are very hard
[Peirce]
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13876
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The syntactic category is primary, and the ontological category is derivative
[Frege, by Wright,C]
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20352
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Nietzsche has a metaphysics, as well as perspectives - the ontology is the perspectives
[Nietzsche, by Richardson]
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11103
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We aren't stuck with our native conceptual scheme; we can gradually change it
[Quine]
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6310
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Enquiry needs a conceptual scheme, so we should retain the best available
[Quine]
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15801
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Many philosophers aim to understand metaphysics by studying ourselves
[Chisholm]
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7922
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Descriptive metaphysics concerns unchanging core concepts and categories
[Strawson,P]
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6979
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Serious metaphysics cares about entailment between sentences
[Jackson]
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15215
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Philosophy devises and assesses conceptual schemes in the service of worldviews
[Harré/Madden]
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4214
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Maybe such concepts as causation, identity and existence are primitive and irreducible
[Lowe]
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13919
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Philosophy aims not at the 'analysis of concepts', but at understanding the essences of things
[Lowe]
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15003
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It seems unlikely that the way we speak will give insights into the universe
[Sider]
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15169
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Metaphysics is clarifying how we speak and think (and possibly improving it)
[Sidelle]
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9217
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Modern empirical metaphysics focuses on ontological commitments of discourse, or on presuppositions
[Loux/Zimmerman]
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16257
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Kant survives in seeing metaphysics as analysing our conceptual system, which is a priori
[Maudlin]
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14898
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Modern metaphysics pursues aesthetic criteria like story-writing, and abandons scientific truth
[Ladyman/Ross]
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18835
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Logic doesn't have a metaphysical basis, but nor can logic give rise to the metaphysics
[Rumfitt]
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