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AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION. General Discussion Digest for Friday November 6, 2020.

 

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started 19 hours ago, Alex Blum (1 reply) Metaphysical Truth    1.  What is a metaphysical truth? What makes it... Alex Blum 2.  What is a metaphysical truth? What makes it... Friedrich Grafe

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1.	Metaphysical Truth
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Nov 6, 2020 4:35 AM Alex Blum
What is a metaphysical truth? What makes it metaphysical?
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Nov 6, 2020 10:00 AM Friedrich Grafe
What is a metaphysical truth? What makes it metaphysical?  Dear Alex Blum, I'll try to answer: asking/talking about metaphysics – in my perception - is a prime example for what is typical to philosophical dialogue, viz., eliminating questionable presuppositions before trying to answer. I'd like to summarize my personal answer to this topic (at some length but below 500 words :-) ) as follows: The use of the epistemological labels 'true', 'false' for metaphysical statements is -in my perception - inadequate, for suggesting an epistemic situation for metaphysical research, it does not reside in. Take Immanuel Kant's CPR seriously, as to that metaphysics is not possible as an exact science (like theoretical physics or pure mathematics). But it does not follow, that metaphysical research in some less ambitious way were not possible. Next, metaphysics is not the science of a separate world different from the world as viewed by science or as perceived or else experienced in every day life, profession and industry. In the opposite. Metaphysics is just about this one world, we inhabit, work on, reason about, … , while looking at it  from other points of view. There are basically at least two cognitive points of metaphysical view, and else perhaps equally legitimate non-cognitive view points in terms of ethical value, aesthetic respect, religious worship, … confine here to the cognitive ones: The perhaps most discussed cognitive viewpoint concerns the implicit assumptions about population and/or structure of the world, scientific theories carry with them, which vary with history of science (-> Collingwood). Examples are, the logical structure of scientific theories (including e.g. Ramsay sentences, indiscernibles, … ), the nature of physical space (in the time of Descartes,Leibniz, Newton), or physical conservation laws (mostly in a later time in the history of physics) Another equally important cognitive view point, not really covered by Kant but by his (e.g. german idealist) successors concerns the fact, that despite the (by CPR part I doctrine) indirectness of scientific access to the world, we are (intelligent) part(s) of this one world ('Ding an sich','substance','universe', …), have thus too some (!) direct cognitive access to the world, this cognitive relation given by introspection as well as indirectly by practice of different kinds (emotions, intentions, will, technical and industrial practice, social and economical interactions, … ) [My recent rather special article on Spinoza's metaphysics in E1 (see e.g. @philpapers) reflects in some way these general cognitive view points. ] ------------------------------ Friedrich Grafe Wendelstein ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- Original Message: Sent: 11-06-2020 04:34 From: Alex Blum Subject: Metaphysical Truth What is a metaphysical truth? What makes it metaphysical?
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Nov 6, 2020 11:19 AM Stefan Lukianov
Smart idea.  Didn't Wittgenstein argue that the last task of philosophy was verbal language?  I'm sure that includes determining the best way to articulate your thoughts! ------------------------------ Stefan Lukianov Self Framingham MA ------------------------------
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------------------------------------------- Original Message: Sent: 11-05-2020 08:03 From: Anne Waters Subject: Short Paper Section Enjoying this site! Thanks and keep up the good work. Sent from my iPhone Dr. Anne Waters, J.D., Ph.D. Original Message: Sent: 11/4/2020 11:12:00 AM From: Jacob Andrews Subject: RE: Short Paper Section Are you guys picturing something peer-reviewed, a blog with looser guidelines, a subset of the APA website, or what? ------------------------------ Jacob Joseph Andrews Upper School Latin Teacher and IT Administrator – Covenant Classical School PhD Candidate, Philosophy – Loyola University Chicago https://jacobjandrews.wordpress.com/