Spór o propozycjonalność metafizyki. Diagnoza

• Authors: Sebastian T. Kołodziejczyk

Title variants

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PROPOSITIONAL STATUS OF METAPHYSICS. A DIAGNOSIS

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The article deals with a Jerzy Perzanowski's question about the semantic status of metaphysical expressions. Perzanowski suggests that metaphysics very often starts with serious substantial problems but ends with considerations that refer only to conceptual and logical properties of language. ​The Author of the article tries to diagnose that situation by putting forward the thesis about difficulties with propositional status of metaphysics (a way metaphysical expressions are understood). The common argument says that if propositionality of metaphysical expressions is defined in terms of a theory of meaning (as it is widely accepted), the only way of saving metaphysics is to settle it up at the metapropositional level that eventually appears to give a deflationary disciplin that eventually comes up with verbal disputes and delivers trivial statements. ​In addition to that the Author sketches an alternative picture that consists in a belief that problems with propositionality of metaphysical expressions may also motivate to step back from the propostional level appraching so-called prepropositional level. Both metapropositionality and prepropositionality as key features of contemporary analytic and continental metaphysics appear to be ways of overcoming the essential problem with propositionality of metaphysical expressions.

Keywords

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SEMANTICS; LANGUAGE; METAPHISICS; PROPOSITIONAL STATUS OF METAPHYSICAL EXPRESSIONS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Umiejętności / Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 11-27

Contributors

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Sebastian T. Kołodziejczyk

• Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Instytut Filozofii, ul. Grodzka 52, 31-044 Kraków, Poland