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The grounding revival brought metaphysics back without bringing back a method
For much of the twentieth century, substantive metaphysics was out of fashion. Carnap argued that many ontological questions were either trivial within a framework or merely practical choices about which framework to use. Quine brought ontology back, but in a tightly regimented…
Started by Oskar Nyberg0 replies57 views -
Metaphysics is about what grounds what, not about what exists
I teach metaphysics at a seminary in Enugu. For most of the last century analytic metaphysics followed Quine: the job of ontology is to say what exists, and existence is settled by what our best theories quantify over. Recently a neo-Aristotelian movement…
Started by Fr. Ikechukwu Anyanwu5 replies158 views