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

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14/2 - Fall 2009, pages 175-191
Date of online publication: 15 novembre 2009
Date of publication: 01 novembre 2009

Abstract

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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Kołodziejczyk, Sebastian Tomasz. “Reference, Description, and Explanation: Where Metaphysics Went Wrong?” Forum Philosophicum 14, no. 2 (2009): 175–91. doi:10.35765/forphil.2009.1402.16.

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