The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden

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1. Transcendental metaphysics in the strict sense consists in analyzing and explicating transcendentals, disjunctive as well as convertible.

2. Transcendental metaphysics in the broad sense consists in analyzing and explicating existentials as well as transcendentals.

3.  Although all differences with respect to transcendentals—i.e., differences among transcendentals themselves as well as between transcendentals and other types of objects-are properly said to be logical-ontological type-differences, the converse proposition is false, because differences with respect to existentials—i.e., differences among existentials themselves as well as between existentials and other types of objects—are also, in their way, properly logical-ontological type-differences. 

4. There is nothing anomalous after all, then, about Thesis 5 in my paper,Transcendental Metaphysics in Outline: Ten Theses, because the difference with respect to particular individuals between those who are and those who are not capable of self-understanding is precisely a logical-ontological typed difference, even if it is not a difference with respect to transcendentals. 

5. The paper just referred to, however, is seriously mistitled; it would be more appropriately titled, instead, "Logical-Ontological Type-Differences in Outline: Ten Theses.

2 August 2002

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