Reference, Description, and Explanation. Where Metaphysics Went Wrong?

• Authors: Sebastian Tomasz Kołodziejczyk
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

Metaphysics; Analysis (Philosophy); Logical Positivism; Philosophy of Nature; Kant, Immanuel

• Publisher: Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie
• Journal: Forum Philosophicum
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 175-191

Dates

published

2009

Contributors

author

Sebastian Tomasz Kołodziejczyk

• Jagiellonian University, Cracow

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10.5840/forphil20091421

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