Transcendentalism or Naturalism: The Only Alternatives?*
作者:
Arum STROLL,
期刊:
Dialectica
(WILEY Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 49,
issue 2‐4
页码: 95-112
ISSN:0012-2017
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1111/j.1746-8361.1995.tb00156.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThe author argues that despite appears to the contrary the transcendentalism naturalism dichotomy is neither exclusive nor exhaustive. It is possible for someone to give a transcendental argument demonstrating that the world must have certain characteristics. If the argument is correct, i.e., if water is necessarily H2O, then science and the naturalist will find water to be H2O in fact. One can therefore be a transcendentalist and naturalist at the same time. The dichotomy is not exhaustive either, since it is possible to develop a philosophy which is descriptive of reality and yet is neither transcendental nor naturalistic. The author illustrates this alternative with a view he calls “Piecemeal Realism
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