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Polar Concepts and Metaphysical Arguments
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Polar Concepts and Metaphysical Arguments 1

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Polar Concepts and Metaphysical Arguments 1 book

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Polar Concepts and Metaphysical Arguments 1 book

ByC. K. Grant
BookClarity is not Enough

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1963
Imprint Routledge
Pages 23
eBook ISBN 9781315534732

ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the credentials of an argument that enjoys a considerable vogue in contemporary philosophy. It considers a logical principle about the nature of polar concepts, which for the sake of brevity is called as the polar principle. The chapter focuses on distorting different kinds of philosophical problems. It expresses that the purpose of metaphysics is to modify language habits leaves the matter obscure, because it then appears that the metaphysician is trying to alter the ways of talking for no reason whatsoever. It may be objected that although metaphysical propositions are not like proposals to reform language, neither are they like statements of analogies. The answer to this is that metaphysical arguments do not state, but rather draw attention to, analogies. The polar principle represents an attempt to reduce the complexity of polar distinctions to the simplicity of straightforward opposites.

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