tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472139466585018053.post3283047585555941014..comments2024-03-11T04:11:06.487-04:00Comments on The Smithy: Truthmakers?Lee Faberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00476833516234522602noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472139466585018053.post-36569010896121414182011-11-15T17:40:39.598-05:002011-11-15T17:40:39.598-05:00This was truly an excellent post. It is most grati...This was truly an excellent post. It is most gratifying to see a discussion of a very unnecessarily confusing contemporary topic from a scholastic perspective. More often than not, today's philosophy takes on an opaqueness that is the direct result of a refusal to begin at the beginning. Without a thorough elucidation of first principles all we are left with is a muddleheaded attempt to turn intuitions and modern biases into real theories of reality and language. My suspicion is that much more contemporary philosophy can use a dose of this.E.R. Bournehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08847266600675489605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472139466585018053.post-76747427908076560482011-11-14T23:00:30.693-05:002011-11-14T23:00:30.693-05:00Thanks, awatkins.
By the way, Ocham (if you read ...Thanks, awatkins.<br /><br />By the way, Ocham (if you read this), the "filthy" in "filthy nominalist" is meant in fun, as pertaining to school rivalry - no slight intended!Michael Sullivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11191322302191384384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472139466585018053.post-39205190006597354742011-11-14T18:43:30.957-05:002011-11-14T18:43:30.957-05:00Wonderful post! Your argument is convincing. I fin...Wonderful post! Your argument is convincing. I find myself agreeing more and more these days with the idea which you state, that we shouldn't assume the way we talk about things implies anything about the way things are. This leads to many errors in analytic philosophy. Off the top of my head, the immensely popular Quinean view of ontology might be one of them. Since analytic philosophy makes little distinction between categories of being, with some more fundamental than others, just by saying "there are ____" you've likely generated a new category of things. I'd suggest at least some of it has to do with its Kantian heritage (the name 'analytic philosophy' itself bears the name of the great thinker).awatkins909https://www.blogger.com/profile/04272494240109130737noreply@blogger.com