Reference, Description, and Explanation. Where Metaphysics Went Wrong?
Author(s) -
Sebastian Kołodziejczyk
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
forum philosophicum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2353-7043
pISSN - 1426-1898
DOI - 10.35765/forphil.2009.1402.16
Subject(s) - metaphysics , proposition , epistemology , focus (optics) , philosophy , meaning (existential) , philosophy of language , physics , optics
The classical arguments against metaphysics provided by Immanuel Kant, neopositivists and recently by analytical philosophers focus on the problem of meaning. In my paper I would like to shed a little bit of light on different dimensions of this problem in the metaphysical discourse and make a proposition how to overcome the difficulties that arise from this kind of discourse.
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