Any examples of Greeks using 'meta' that way? I keep hearing that for a long time it only connected to 'physical' with reference to cataloguing of Aristotle's books? — bongo fury
The question was how, why or when did 'speculative' enter the lexicon. Interesting though to see it joined to 'dialectics'. Is/was that common? Examples please. If so then perhaps your theory, that 'speculative' meant 'fanciful' in relation to Hegel's historicising, gets some traction. — bongo fury
Aristotle never used the term metaphysics. — Joshs
I'd have thought that metaphysics starts from the assumption that all the physics is settled, — bongo fury
The ‘meta’ is the formal synthetic framework which organizes the understanding of ‘physis’ (nature). — Joshs
Hegel regarded his dialectical method or “speculative mode of cognition” (PR §10) as the hallmark of his philosophy. — Joshs
When it wasn't part of an insult? Who coined it? — bongo fury
I never quite understood why logical positivism kinda faded out of existence and was taken over by a new methodology in science called fallibilism, so named after Popper established it as a better method than verification of conjectures or hypothesi.
In my opinion, it seems that when stating a hypothesis in science, we are guided by existing factual knowledge about the domain or field of study in question, and upon feeling quite confident that it is true with respect to existing knowledge, we attempt to design experiments that (and here I'm not sure) validate(?) or invalidate a hypothesis. — Shawn
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