A Modern Introduction to Metaphysics: Readings from Classical and Contemporary SourcesD. A. Drennen |
Contents
One THE SPIRIT OF METAPHYSICAL INQUIRY | 1 |
The Possible and the Real Henri Bergson 456X | 13 |
Two METAPHYSICAL METHOD | 57 |
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absolute abstract actual affirmation analogy analysis analytic propositions answer Aristotle asserts become beginning called causality cause claim cognition common sense concept concrete consciousness considered criticism deduction definition Descartes determination distinction doctrine eclecticism empirical empiricism epistemology essent everything existence existential existentialist experience explain express F. H. Bradley fact finite formulated G. E. Moore give grasp human hypothesis idea ideal inquiry instance intellectual intelligible interpretation intuition Jacques Maritain Kant kind language Leibniz limited linguistic logical matter meaning merely meta metaphysical system metaphysical theories metaphysician method mind nature never notion object ontological Parmenides philosophy physics Plato possible presupposes principle problem propositions pure knowledge question reality reason reflection relation Scholasticism scientific sentence simply Socrates speak Spinoza spiritual statements substance things Thomist thought tion transcendent true truth understand unity universal W. D. Ross Whitehead whole words