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Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion - Toward a Widespread Non-Factualism (Hardcover, 1)
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Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion - Toward a Widespread Non-Factualism (Hardcover, 1)
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Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion does two things. First, it
introduces a novel kind of non-factualist view, and argues that we
should endorse views of this kind in connection with a wide class
of metaphysical questions, most notably, the abstract-object
question and the composite-object question. (More specifically,
Mark Balaguer argues that there's no fact of the matter whether
there are any such things as abstract objects or composite
objects-or material objects of any other kind.) Second,
Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion explains how these
non-factualist views fit into a general anti-metaphysical view
called neo-positivism, and explains how we could argue that
neo-positivism is true. Neo-positivism is the view that every
metaphysical question decomposes into some subquestions-call them
Q1, Q2, Q3, etc.-such that, for each of these subquestions, one of
the following three anti-metaphysical views is true of it:
non-factualism, or scientism, or metaphysically innocent
modal-truth-ism. These three views can be defined (very roughly) as
follows: non-factualism about a question Q is the view that there's
no fact of the matter about the answer to Q. Scientism about Q is
the view that Q is an ordinary empirical-scientific question about
some contingent aspect of physical reality, and Q can't be settled
with an a priori philosophical argument. And metaphysically
innocent modal-truth-ism about Q is the view that Q asks about the
truth value of a modal sentence that's metaphysically innocent in
the sense that it doesn't say anything about reality and, if it's
true, isn't made true by reality
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