{"id":1461,"date":"2023-05-08T16:38:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T16:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/08\/metaphysics-and-common-sense\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T16:38:12","slug":"metaphysics-and-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/08\/metaphysics-and-common-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Metaphysics and Common Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">It is a curious fact that some philosophers will enlist common sense in support of the wild metaphysical views they maintain. Karel Lambert, for example, thinks that common sense favors Meinong&#39;s doctrine of <em>Aussersein!<\/em>&#0160;(See his M<em>einong&#39;s Principle of Independence<\/em>, Cambridge UP, 1983, p. 17.)&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I should think that common sense with its &quot;robust sense of reality&quot; (Russell) opposes <em>Aussersein<\/em>, the doctrine that some items, despite their being mind-independent, have no being (<em>Sein<\/em>) whatsoever. They are said to be <em>jenseits von Sein und Nichtsein<\/em>, &quot;beyond being and nonbeing.&quot;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2019\/11\/van-inwagen-contra-meinong-on-having-being-and-lacking-being.html\"><em>Contra<\/em><\/a> Peter van Inwagen, the doctrine is not logically contradictory, but it is, I maintain, unintelligible. (I hope this amounts to more than a purely autobiographical remark.) I simply do not understand how some definite item, the golden mountain, say, that is mind-independent, can be an item without some mode of being. Must not a pure essence, <em>ein reines Sosein<\/em>, have at least what Henry of Ghent called <em>esse essentiae<\/em>, the being of essence?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a curious fact that some philosophers will enlist common sense in support of the wild metaphysical views they maintain. Karel Lambert, for example, thinks that common sense favors Meinong&#39;s doctrine of Aussersein!&#0160;(See his Meinong&#39;s Principle of Independence, Cambridge UP, 1983, p. 17.)&#0160; I should think that common sense with its &quot;robust sense of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/08\/metaphysics-and-common-sense\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Metaphysics and Common Sense&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meinong-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}