Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Issues of Pragmaticism', 'The New Institutional Theory of Art' and 'Ambitious, yet modest, Metaphysics'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

5 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science

16415

Esoteric metaphysics aims to be top science, investigating ultimate reality [Hofweber]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

16413

Science has discovered properties of things, so there are properties - so who needs metaphysics? [Hofweber]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

16416

The quantifier in logic is not like the ordinary English one (which has empty names, non-denoting terms etc) [Hofweber]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning

19087

The meaning or purport of a symbol is all the rational conduct it would lead to [Peirce]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 6. Art as Institution

20329

A work of art is an artifact created for the artworld [Dickie]