The dilemma with epistemology is the concept of epistemology itself, because it suggests that there is a cognition machine in our head that is capable of knowing the world, and that in a transcendent sense. — Wolfgang
Excluding all metaphysical and transcendental ideas means focusing on this one world of ours and ensuring that it is preserved. — Wolfgang
Epistemologically, we move on a surface whose “depth” we do not know, cannot know and do not have to know. — Wolfgang
Like a long-legged fly upon the stream
His mind moves upon silence. — W B Yeats
Epistemologies are therefore to be understood as tools that we can use to understand and shape our environment. This position was mainly held by Pierre Duhem. — Wolfgang
Every species and - if this were possible - every inanimate particle has its own world 2. — Wolfgang
You cannot escape metaphysics, with all of its problems, just by acknowledging an unknown World 1. You have already built a metaphysical view, because you have built a system of ideas. As such, it is exposed to all criticism that metaphysics is exposed to.World 1 is the world that exists independently of humans, World 2 is the anthropic world — Wolfgang
This is a metaphysical statement. As such, it is exposed to the problems and criticism that metaphysics is exposed to.Every existent is instantiated in the world with its modality and interacts with it by means of this modality — Wolfgang
Metaphysics in philosophy is not when you refer to some other world; you can be fully metaphysical even without any reference to any other world.If there is no other 'world' for us, then there is nothing behind this world of ours, so there is no meta-physics — Wolfgang
:up:If there is no other 'world' for us, then there is nothing behind this world of ours, so there is no meta-physics
— Wolfgang
Metaphysics in philosophy is not when you refer to some other world; you can be fully metaphysical even without any reference to any other world. — Angelo Cannata
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