7918 | Kant turned metaphysics into epistemology, ignoring Aristotle's 'being qua being' [Kant, by Macdonald,C] |
21438 | Metaphysics might do better to match objects to our cognition (and not start with the objects) [Kant] |
16611 | You just can't stop metaphysical speculation, in any mature mind [Kant] |
5586 | The voyage of reason may go only as far as the coastline of experience reaches [Kant] |
8107 | The love of certainty holds us back in metaphysics [Joubert] |
15612 | Older metaphysics naively assumed that thought grasped things in themselves [Hegel] |
7080 | Metaphysics divided the old unified Greek world into two [Nietzsche, by Critchley] |
20728 | Metaphysics is hopeless with its present epistemology; common-sense realism is needed [Colvin] |
5432 | Metaphysics cannot give knowledge of the universe as a whole [Russell] |
13939 | No possible evidence could decide the reality of numbers, so it is a pseudo-question [Carnap] |
16395 | Kripke separated semantics from metaphysics, rather than linking them, making the latter independent [Kripke, by Stalnaker] |
12771 | Is it likely that a successful, coherent, explanatory ontological hypothesis is true? [Fraassen] |
12027 | There must be a plausible epistemological theory alongside any metaphysical theory [Forbes,G] |
15053 | If metaphysics can't be settled, it hardly matters whether it makes sense [Fine,K] |
18506 | Questions of explanation should not be confused with metaphyics [Heil] |
14721 | Metaphysical enquiry can survive if its conclusions are tentative [Sider] |
15010 | Your metaphysics is 'cheating' if your ontology won't support the beliefs you accept [Sider] |
14912 | There is no test for metaphysics, except devising alternative theories [Ladyman/Ross] |