11193 | Understanding begins with the notion of being and essence [Avicenna] |
12124 | Metaphysics is the best knowledge, because it is the simplest [Bacon] |
9438 | Maybe analysis seeks the 'nominal essence', and metaphysics seeks the 'real essence' [Locke, by Mumford] |
13086 | Metaphysics is a science of the intelligible nature of being [Leibniz, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne] |
21954 | Metaphysics is a systematic account of everything that can be known a priori [Kant] |
16931 | Metaphysics is generating a priori knowledge by intuition and concepts, leading to the synthetic [Kant] |
15631 | The ideal of reason is the unification of abstract identity (or 'concept') and being [Hegel] |
16011 | Hegel doesn't storm the heavens like the giants, but works his way up by syllogisms [Kierkegaard on Hegel] |
19218 | Metaphysics is pointless without exact modern logic [Peirce] |
19638 | Metaphysics is a universalisation of physical anguish [Cioran] |
13736 | Quinean metaphysics just lists the beings, which is a domain with no internal structure [Schaffer,J on Quine] |
7920 | Descriptive metaphysics aims at actual structure, revisionary metaphysics at a better structure [Strawson,P] |
14611 | Metaphysics should avoid talk of past, present or future [Smart] |
12667 | Metaphysics aims at the simplest explanation, without regard to testability [Ellis] |
16440 | I don't think Lewis's cost-benefit reflective equilibrium approach offers enough guidance [Stalnaker] |
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
11912 | Substantive metaphysics says what a property is, not what a predicate means [Molnar] |
3358 | Metaphysics focuses on Platonism, essentialism, materialism and anti-realism [Benardete,JA] |
10468 | A metaphysics has an ontology (objects) and an ideology (expressed ideas about them) [Oliver] |
14250 | Metaphysics deals with the existence of things and with the nature of things [Fine,K] |
16414 | Science needs metaphysics to weed out its presuppositions [Lowe, by Hofweber] |
9414 | Metaphysics is the mapping of possibilities [Lowe, by Mumford] |
19275 | You cannot understand what exists without understanding possibility and necessity [Hale] |
21634 | Metaphysics is (supposedly) first the ontology, then in general what things are like [Hofweber] |
13734 | Modern Quinean metaphysics is about what exists, but Aristotelian metaphysics asks about grounding [Schaffer,J] |
18859 | Metaphysics is a quest for truthmakers [Tallant] |
17266 | Using modal logic, philosophers tried to handle all metaphysics in modal terms [Correia/Schnieder] |