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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science

22138	Science rests on scholastic metaphysics, not on Hume, Kant or Carnap [Boulter]
	Full Idea: The metaphysical principles that allow the scientist to learn from experience are scholastic, not Humean or Kantian or those of twentieth-century positivism.
	From: Stephen Boulter (Why Medieval Philosophy Matters [2019], 2)
	A reaction: Love this. Most modern philosophers of science would be deeply outraged by this, but I reckon that careful and open-minded interviews with scientists would prove it to be correct. We want to know the essential nature of electrons.