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Single Idea 15010
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics
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Full Idea
Ontological 'cheaters' are those ne'er-do-well metaphysicians (such as presentists, phenomenalists, or solipsists) who refuse to countenance a sufficiently robust conception of the fundamental to underwrite the truths they accept.
Gist of Idea
Your metaphysics is 'cheating' if your ontology won't support the beliefs you accept
Source
Theodore Sider (Writing the Book of the World [2011], 08.4)
Book Ref
Sider,Theodore: 'Writing the Book of the World' [OUP 2011], p.154
A Reaction
Presentists are placed in rather insalubrious company here, The notion of 'cheaters' is nice, and I associate it with Australian philosophy, and the reason that was admired by David Lewis.
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21438
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Metaphysics might do better to match objects to our cognition (and not start with the objects)
[Kant]
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16611
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You just can't stop metaphysical speculation, in any mature mind
[Kant]
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5586
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The voyage of reason may go only as far as the coastline of experience reaches
[Kant]
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8107
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The love of certainty holds us back in metaphysics
[Joubert]
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15612
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Older metaphysics naively assumed that thought grasped things in themselves
[Hegel]
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7080
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Metaphysics divided the old unified Greek world into two
[Nietzsche, by Critchley]
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20728
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Metaphysics is hopeless with its present epistemology; common-sense realism is needed
[Colvin]
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5432
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Metaphysics cannot give knowledge of the universe as a whole
[Russell]
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13939
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No possible evidence could decide the reality of numbers, so it is a pseudo-question
[Carnap]
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16395
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Kripke separated semantics from metaphysics, rather than linking them, making the latter independent
[Kripke, by Stalnaker]
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12771
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Is it likely that a successful, coherent, explanatory ontological hypothesis is true?
[Fraassen]
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There must be a plausible epistemological theory alongside any metaphysical theory
[Forbes,G]
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15053
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If metaphysics can't be settled, it hardly matters whether it makes sense
[Fine,K]
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Questions of explanation should not be confused with metaphyics
[Heil]
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Metaphysical enquiry can survive if its conclusions are tentative
[Sider]
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15010
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Your metaphysics is 'cheating' if your ontology won't support the beliefs you accept
[Sider]
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There is no test for metaphysics, except devising alternative theories
[Ladyman/Ross]
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