{"id":1117,"date":"2014-09-24T04:57:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T04:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/notes-on-metaphilosophy"},"modified":"2019-07-26T13:02:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T13:02:32","slug":"notes-on-metaphilosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2014\/09\/24\/notes-on-metaphilosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on Metaphilosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/con-meta\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The description of the early analytic philosophers is that of a methodology, namely to analyze the world in terms of logical propositions. This is really a methodology<\/em>, but I extract a metaphilosophy from it: philosophy seeks to (1) discover a method for describing the world (and its subjects) in such a way as to be informative (i.e. not mere tautologies nor contradictions), and then (2) to apply this method, however, restricted by its requirements (e.g. therefore can\u2019t philosophize on ethics). The conclusion of (1) is logical atomism (for Russell et al.), and to describe this as a metaphilosophy means defining metaphilosophy as a method for describing the world<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/con-meta\/ The description of the early analytic philosophers is that of a methodology, namely to analyze the world in terms of logical propositions. This is really a methodology, but I extract a metaphilosophy from it: philosophy seeks to (1) discover a method for describing the world (and its subjects) in such a way as to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,154,20],"tags":[],"metadata":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-google-drive","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1618,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2017\/04\/24\/the-third-way\/","url_meta":{"origin":1117,"position":0},"title":"The Third Way","author":"Pala","date":"April 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Contextual auto-horizons as determining originary experience of television-serials[1] Editor\u2019s Note: Written c.2006 1. Introduction In the 30 years since the zenith of reader-response criticism, aesthetic theory, as it appears in our venerable institutions, has become increasingly focused on its subject field's relevance to fields outside itself. This attempt to self-validate\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All Posts"","block_context":{"text":"All Posts","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/all-posts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2711,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/11\/26\/tuesday-november-26-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":1117,"position":1},"title":"Tuesday November 26, 2013","author":"Pala","date":"November 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A list that is not random and that refers to things beyond itself qua list-only: Content: What became known as the Dream-Words. Scaruffi: Chapter 4: Part 3. Thoughts as I study through WiBit. Philosopher Brief: Christian Wolff - Take 4. What became known as the Dream-Words Let's begin by saying\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All Posts"","block_context":{"text":"All Posts","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/all-posts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4019,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2014\/09\/08\/reading-hegel-on-sense-certainty\/","url_meta":{"origin":1117,"position":2},"title":"Reading Hegel on “Sense-Certainty”","author":"Pala","date":"September 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Editorial notes: In September 2014, Shai publishes his fifth\u00a0blog\u00a0entitled \u201cM-III\u201d (short for Meantime-III) and subtitled \u201cThe Traveller is the Journey\u201d (not to be confused with a later blog entitled \u201cThe Traveller is the Journey\u201d, published in 2015). In the 'About' page of the blog, Shai shares his observations on his\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All Posts"","block_context":{"text":"All Posts","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/all-posts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2697,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/11\/25\/monday-november-25-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":1117,"position":3},"title":"Monday November 25, 2013","author":"Pala","date":"November 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Now\" keeps changing, leading me to doubt whether it ever is. Contents: Philosopher Brief: Christian Wolff - Take 3\u00a0 Diary: Studying Java and Wibit on programming\u00a0 Some words on Scaruffi: Gaining perspective on chapter 4 - Part 2 Philosopher Brief: Christian Wolff - Take 3 Meta: Title notwithstanding, and long-story\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All Posts"","block_context":{"text":"All Posts","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/all-posts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1929,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2014\/02\/25\/a-philosophical-enquiry-into-the-origin-of-our-ideas-of-the-sublime-and-beautiful-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1117,"position":4},"title":"A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful #2","author":"Pala","date":"February 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Editorial notes: This Essay was found as a 'draft' entry in Everything2. It seems to be a continuation of the thought process recorded a few days earlier in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful and it ends with a number of points\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All Posts"","block_context":{"text":"All Posts","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/all-posts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2681,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/11\/17\/a-post-modern-epiphany\/","url_meta":{"origin":1117,"position":5},"title":"Sunday November 17, 2013","author":"Pala","date":"November 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Contents: A post-modern epiphany Reading Scaruffi: Gaining perspective on chapter 4 A Post-Modern Epiphany One thing I'd like to note, real quick, is the analogy of Alice in Wonderland. It is possible to realize that all the rules and cultural institutions (e.g. library, bank, supermarket, school, army) are as sensical\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All Posts"","block_context":{"text":"All Posts","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/all-posts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/padotI-i1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"metadata","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/metadata?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}