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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. |
6980 | Conceptual analysis studies whether one story is made true by another story [Jackson] |
Full Idea: Conceptual analysis is the very business of addressing when and whether a story told in one vocabulary is made true by one told in some allegedly more fundamental vocabulary. | |
From: Frank Jackson (From Metaphysics to Ethics [1998], Ch.2) | |
A reaction: This is a view of linguistic analysis as focusing on entailments rather than on usage or truth conditions. If philosophy is the attempt to acquire a totally consistent set of beliefs (a plausible view), then Jackson is right. |
6983 | Intuitions about possibilities are basic to conceptual analysis [Jackson] |
Full Idea: Intuitions about possibilities are the bread and butter of conceptual analysis. | |
From: Frank Jackson (From Metaphysics to Ethics [1998], Ch.3) | |
A reaction: Hence the centrality of the debate over conceivability and possibility. Which seems to reduce to the relationship between 'intuition' and 'imagination'. Imagination is a very weak guide to what is possible, and intuition is very uncertain.... |
14707 | Conceptual analysis is needed to establish that metaphysical reductions respect original meanings [Jackson, by Schroeter] |
Full Idea: On the empiricist view of meaning, the relevance of conceptual analysis to metaphysics is that it establishes that a putative reduction respects the original meaning of the target expression. | |
From: report of Frank Jackson (From Metaphysics to Ethics [1998], p.28) by Laura Schroeter - Two-Dimensional Semantics 2.2.4 |