Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
The Parmenidean Ascent
View through CrossRef
Abstract
In realizing that relational metaphysical thinking is incoherent, we see that differentiated thoughts are not possible and that our language must amount, at most, only to fragments of thoughts and not genuine thoughts. At the same time, in making the Parmenidean Ascent and in divesting our words of metaphysical significance, we are free to use (or at least appear to use) the same words but without the metaphysical accretions that in Parmenidean fashion are being eliminated. This chapter is an expression of the inevitably fragmentary character of attempted thoughts and—with its reversion to a fragment of the first sentence of this book—it is also an expression of the use of the same words that we have always used but are now without metaphysical significance.
Title: The Parmenidean Ascent
Description:
Abstract
In realizing that relational metaphysical thinking is incoherent, we see that differentiated thoughts are not possible and that our language must amount, at most, only to fragments of thoughts and not genuine thoughts.
At the same time, in making the Parmenidean Ascent and in divesting our words of metaphysical significance, we are free to use (or at least appear to use) the same words but without the metaphysical accretions that in Parmenidean fashion are being eliminated.
This chapter is an expression of the inevitably fragmentary character of attempted thoughts and—with its reversion to a fragment of the first sentence of this book—it is also an expression of the use of the same words that we have always used but are now without metaphysical significance.
Related Results
Metaphysical Explanation
Metaphysical Explanation
Abstract
In chapter 8, the Parmenidean, Bradleyan methodology turns its sights on metaphysical explanation. The Parmenidean Ascent in this chapter does not proceed—a...
The Parmenidean Ascent
The Parmenidean Ascent
Abstract
The central aim of The Parmenidean Ascent is to reveal the power of an extreme monism of a Parmenidean variety in a more uncompromising manner than has been...
Meaning, the History of Philosophy, and Analytical Philosophy
Meaning, the History of Philosophy, and Analytical Philosophy
Abstract
Chapter 7 considers the consequences of the Parmenidean Ascent with regard to meaning for the alleged distinction between philosophy and the study of its hi...
The Taming of Philosophy
The Taming of Philosophy
Abstract
The biggest source of resistance to the Parmenidean Ascent is the implausibility of its radically monistic conclusions. Philosophers have been taught to avo...
Magma ascent in active Australian intraplate basaltic volcanic provinces
Magma ascent in active Australian intraplate basaltic volcanic provinces
Australia hosts at least two active continental basaltic volcanic fields with Holocene eruption ages yet very little is understood about magma ascent and mantle to surface ascent p...
Meaning, the History of Philosophy, and Analytical Philosophy: A Parmenidean Ascent
Meaning, the History of Philosophy, and Analytical Philosophy: A Parmenidean Ascent
This chapter seeks to shed light on the relation between philosophy and the study of the history of philosophy by resisting certain misconceptions of this relation both on the part...