By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden
If "it is trifling with philosophical problems to accept as valid questions and answers that have no conceivable bearing on how we propose to live" (IO:373 f.), then how can any "speculative philosophy," or "categorial metaphysics," escape the charge of "trifling" in this sense?
So, too, if "the pragmatic principle [holds] that a metaphysics must be livable, must have a reasonable relation to how one lives" (PCH: 687), how can any "categorial metaphysics" as such, i.e., as distinct from the transcendental metaphysics it necessarily implies, possibly pass muster as a valid metaphysics?
February 1998
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