Metaphysics as Pure Creativity
from Part Three - The Late Modern Period II
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Introduction
Many of our protagonists have distinguished, if only implicitly, between two or more kinds of sense-making, in a way that has critically shaped their contribution to the saga. Thus we have witnessed:
Spinoza’s distinction between his three kinds of knowledge
Kant’s broad distinction between what I called ‘thick’ sense-making and ‘thin’ sense-making
Hegel’s distinction between operations of understanding and operations of reason
the early Wittgenstein’s distinction between propositional sense-making and non-propositional sense-making
the two variations on that theme in the later Wittgenstein and Dummett
and
Carnap’s distinction between the making of judgments within a linguistic framework and the adoption of the framework.
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