“Those who take knowledge to be a whole zoo of sub-disciplines will react to my giving metaphysics a privileged position in that zoo or to my thinking of knowledge as a tree, with more and less fundamental parts.” ThinkingGivingWholeTreePositionDisciplineFundamentalsMetaphysicsPrivilegedZoos Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge.” ThinkingGivingMetaphysicsGrammarMisunderstood Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“There are different interpretations of the problem of universals. I understand it as the problem of giving the truthmakers of propositions to the effect that a certain particular is such and such, e.g. propositions like 'this rose is red'. Others have interpreted it as a problem about the ontological commitments of such propositions or a problem about what those propositions mean.” GivingMeanDifferentProblemCertainEffectsParticularCommitmentRedRoseInterpretationPropositionsDifferent InterpretationsRoses Are Red Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
