Joshua Hoffman

  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    It seems that Andronicus named this book the Metaphysics just because he made it the next volume after the Physics.
  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    However, the subsequent mistranslation of the Greek prefix meta- to mean “transcending” or “beyond” fostered the misconception that metaphysics is the study of the supernatural.
  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    a comprehensive inquiry into the ultimate nature of reality.
  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    As such, metaphysics consists of a systematic study of the more general categories of being, and of the more general ways of relating entities.
  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    Thus, metaphysics includes ontology, the science of being, concerned with the general categorization of what exists and of what could exist, and (metaphysical) cosmology, the science of reality as an orderly whole, concerned with the general characterization of reality as an ordered law-governed system
  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    A primary ontological presupposition of our ordinary conceptual scheme is the reality of enduring things, or individual substances, continuants such as people, horses, boulders, trees, and bridges.
  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    This first goal of metaphysics is to provide a kind of inventory of the actual world.
  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    Second, a complete ontological taxonomy would provisionally include every category whose instantiation we do not know to be impossible.
  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    Hence, metaphysics also seeks to specify and organize all of the possible categories of being, that is, those categories whose instantiation is epistemically possible.
  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    According to the system in question, the most general category is entity.
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