2015年8月21日 · As philosophy means love of wisdom, and metaphysics is wholly incapable of providing it, metaphysics cannot be philosophy, and this no matter what Wikipedia or junior college philosophy courses may suggest to the contrary. "Metaphysics" is not a term which either Plato or Aristotle used. It originated with Andronicus of Rhodes (~150CE).

Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the essence of things, of the fundamental nature of being and the world and the principles that organize the universe. Metaphysics is supposed to answer the question "What is the nature of reality?"

That is why atheist thinkers do not go for metaphysics and ontology and all kinds of philosophy, they just keep on insisting that material things are the only somethings to study for man. But even the science of physics which is a material investigation of the ultimate particles and origin of the (material) universe is today cognizant of the ...

2016年5月18日 · The undertaking of this present work [of metaphysics] is to outline a theory so comprehensive that, for a long time to come, the entire work of human reason, in philosophy of every school and kind, in mathematics, in psychology, in physical science, in history, in sociology, and in whatever department there may be, shall appear as the filling ...

Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the essence of things, of the fundamental nature of being and the world and the principles that organize the universe. Metaphysics is supposed to answer the question "What is the nature of reality?"

2025年1月1日 · It is the former who need metaphysics, but the latter accepts that metaphysics becomes groundless or non-empirical and this makes it a hindrance to mathematical development and creativity. If you take, for example, Paul Cohen's Continuum Hypothesis and the procedure of forcing you will encounter someone who says "I'm just doing mathematics, don ...

2024年6月11日 · The current situation is an embarrassment for the philosophy of science. Indeed one might go so far as to say that it is the sort of scandal to philosophy of science that Kant thought skepticism was to epistemology. See also: Theories of Explanation (IEP) Metaphysical Explanation (SEP) Scientific Explanation (SEP)

2023年2月4日 · metaphysics; philosophy-of-mind; existence; Share. Improve this question. Follow edited Feb 4, 2023 at 17: ...

2024年12月16日 · Ehh, you could have been more specific in outlining her epistemic fallacies, and a lot of the arguments against certainty of a mind independent world exist in Descartes, Berkeley and Kant, furthermore her metaphysics is very tautological and fallacious (existence exists is true, that doesn’t imply consciousness can’t logically create or ...

2024年4月30日 · On the contrary, causes-simultaneous-with-their-effects have not been ignored in the "West," but Kant says:. The principle of the connection of causality among phenomena is limited in our formula to the succession thereof, although in practice we find that the principle applies also when the phenomena exist together in the same time, and that cause and effect …