Metaphysics as Essentially Imaginative and Aiming at Understanding
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Abstract I explore the view that metaphysics is essentially imaginative. argue central goal of on this understanding, not truth. Metaphysics- as-essentially-imaginative provides novel answers to challenges both value and epistemic status metaphysics.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Philosophical Quarterly
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['0003-0481', '2152-1123']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5406/21521123.60.1.07