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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual

6979	Serious metaphysics cares about entailment between sentences [Jackson]
	Full Idea: Serious metaphysics is committed to views about which sentences entail which other sentences.
	From: Frank Jackson (From Metaphysics to Ethics [1998], Ch.1)
	A reaction: This does not say that metaphysics is only about entailment, or (even worse) only about sentences. Put another way: if we wish to be wise, we must study the implications of our beliefs. Yes.