The Problem of Metaphysics and the Meaning of Metaphysical Explanation: An Essay in Definitions (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Alexander, Hartley Burr

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ISBN 10 : 1333604610 ISBN 13 : 9781333604615

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Most of our differences in matters metaphysical are misunderstandings. We fail to apprehend one anothers meanings, no matter how strenuously we strive to speak and write with precision, no matter how painstakingly we listen and read. Even in our own thinking half our problems are due to misleadings of the thoughts language or habit. The terms we use, the images, the abstractions and symbols, tend ever to lead us awry; for each of these is compounded of remnants of old constructions and of manners of thought long discarded, which yet, in spite of us, insidiously enter into and weaken the structure we aim to build anew. For such reason the essay at hand is in the form of a study of terms. It endeavors to define our more elemental metaphysical concepts, and to show some shades of meaning conveyed by the words we use, aspects we might emphasize, distinctions we should render clear. But in this the author does not attempt encyclopaedic lexicography: it is not his purpose to give exhaustive definition nor full historical exposition of the meaning of any term. It is only for method that the essay proceeds by definition; its purpose is to outline as clearly as possible the central problem and import of all metaphysic, and for the accomplishment of this no method is likely to prove so fruitful as the Aristotelian study of concepts. But in the work here given it must not be understood that there is any endeavor at metaphysical construction. In all ways effort has been directed to the avoidance of this.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333604610
• ISBN 13: 9781333604615
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 135
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