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Joshua Hoffman

  • Jan Noцитирует2 года назад
    It seems that Andronicus named this book the Metaphysics just because he made it the next volume after the Physics.
  • Jan Noцитирует2 года назад
    However, the subsequent mistranslation of the Greek prefix meta- to mean “transcending” or “beyond” fostered the misconception that metaphysics is the study of the supernatural.
  • Jan Noцитирует2 года назад
    a comprehensive inquiry into the ultimate nature of reality.
  • Jan Noцитирует2 года назад
    As such, metaphysics consists of a systematic study of the more general categories of being, and of the more general ways of relating entities.
  • Jan Noцитирует2 года назад
    Thus, metaphysics includes ontology, the science of being, concerned with the general categorization of what exists and of what could exist, and (metaphysical) cosmology, the science of reality as an orderly whole, concerned with the general characterization of reality as an ordered law-governed system
  • Jan Noцитирует2 года назад
    A primary ontological presupposition of our ordinary conceptual scheme is the reality of enduring things, or individual substances, continuants such as people, horses, boulders, trees, and bridges.
  • Jan Noцитирует2 года назад
    This first goal of metaphysics is to provide a kind of inventory of the actual world.
  • Jan Noцитирует2 года назад
    Second, a complete ontological taxonomy would provisionally include every category whose instantiation we do not know to be impossible.
  • Jan Noцитирует2 года назад
    Hence, metaphysics also seeks to specify and organize all of the possible categories of being, that is, those categories whose instantiation is epistemically possible.
  • Jan Noцитирует2 года назад
    According to the system in question, the most general category is entity.
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