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Outline of metaphysics
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But all philosophy is either cognition on the basis of pure reason, or the cognition of reason on the basis of empirical principles. The former is termed pure, the latter empirical philosophy. The philosophy of pure reason is either propædeutic, that is, an inquiry into the powers of reason in regard to pure à priori cognition, and is termed critical philosophy; or it is, secondly, the system of pure reason—a…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
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Such a standpoint is termed ‘metaphysical.’ Accordingly those readers who find metaphysics, even in two slight chapters, irksome, will do well to proceed at once to the Chapter on ‘Religion and Science,’ which resumes the topic of the impact of science on modern…
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the modern world
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But metaphysics leads us towards bounds in the dialectical attempts of pure reason (not undertaken arbitrarily or wantonly, but stimulated thereto by the nature of reason itself). And the transcendental Ideas, as they do not admit of evasion, and are never capable of realisation, serve to point out to us actually not only the bounds of the pure use of reason, but also the way to determine them.
Immanuel Kant, Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
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- Gilbert Ryle
- Hylozoism
- B-theory of time
- Predeterminism
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Absolute idealism
- George Berkeley
- G. E. Moore
- Quality (philosophy)
- Organicism
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Gilles Deleuze
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Philosophical realism
- Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg
- Henri Bergson
- Dualism in cosmology
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- Heraclitus
- Paul Benacerraf
- Zeno of Elea
- Isaac Newton
- Immanuel Kant
- The Unreality of Time
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Narrower topics:
- Ananda Coomaraswamy
- Frithjof Schuon
- Judith Jarvis Thomson
- Metaphysical Society of America
- Planck (spacecraft)
- Tim Crane
- University of Freiburg
- Graham Harman
- Temporal finitism
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Peter Wessel Zapffe
- World disclosure
- Meaning (existential)
- Terence Parsons
- Actus essendi
- Balance (metaphysics)
- Brian Leftow
- Nathan Salmón
- Analogy of the divided line
- Epiphenomenon
- Inherence
- Scotistic realism
- The Journal of Theological Studies
- Trenton Merricks