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152Meta-Ontology, Epistemology & Essence: On the Empirical Deduction of the CategoriesThe Monist 98 (3): 290-302. 2015.A priori reflection, common sense and intuition have proved unreliable sources of information about the world outside of us. So the justification for a theory of the categories must derive from the empirical support of the scientific theories whose descriptions it unifies and clarifies. We don’t have reliable information about the de re modal profiles of external things either because the overwhelming proportion of our knowledge of the external world is theoretical—knowledge by description rathe…Read more
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Metaphysics and Epistemology |
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History of Western Philosophy |
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Philosophy of Language |
20th Century Philosophy |