Term
Metaphysics
used in 82 texts across the archive
“I worked with Eric Gans’s argument that metaphysics is a belief that the declarative sentence is the primary linguistic form—as I suggested, this leads to the assumption that language is essentially a mode of information transmission, rather than a means of conflict reduction, which further means that language is a means of control through asymmetrical information flows. I would now strengthen that claim as follows: metaphysics is the attempt to subordinate other elementary linguistic forms to the declarative, which means to eliminate them as independent forms.”
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“Metaphysics is the attempt to rectify language when such events force language into self-reflexive states so that we can continue to look through language; originary grammar tries to articulate looking at language and with language with looking through language.”
“One way of breaking with Western metaphysics is by acknowledging the traditional character of all thought.”
“The best-known exponent of this version of metaphysics is the German social democratic philosopher Jurgen Habermas.”
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