De eenheid van een gedachte: Over de samenhang van logica en metafysica

Translated title of the contribution: The unity of a thought: On the relation between logic and metaphysics

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Abstract

What does the unity of a thought consist in? The analytic tradition typically accepts the Fregean answer to this question: a thought is, in the fundamental case, the result of applying a concept to an appropriate range of objects. Yet upon reflection this turns out to be insufficient. I follow Rödl’s exploration of the unity of temporal thoughts, which shows this unity to be differentiated in such a way as to give rise to the basic metaphysical categories of time, causality, essence, and power. These considerations seem to warrant three conclusions: first, reality is conceptual in nature; second, meta-physics and logic are one and the same subject; and third, these two conclusions are to be taken in an absolute metaphysical sense.
Translated title of the contributionThe unity of a thought: On the relation between logic and metaphysics
Original languageDutch
Pages (from-to)145-160
Number of pages16
JournalAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte
Volume109
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Jan 2017

Keywords

  • thought
  • logic
  • metaphysics
  • time
  • causality
  • essentialism

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