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(1989) Cause, mind, and reality, Dordrecht, Springer.

On being ontologically unserious

Kai Nielsen

pp. 235-259

There are philosophers who even now want to be ontologically serious. We need, they tell us, to see the world rightly and to do this we must work out a fundamental ontology which will display the most basic features that the world must have. This is not a matter of careful experimental investigation linked with adroit and imaginative theory design but a matter, or in some way essentially a matter, of pure rigourous thought. Pure disciplined philosophical reflection will yield the basic categories of the world.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-9734-2_16

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Nielsen, K. (1989)., On being ontologically unserious, in J. Heil (ed.), Cause, mind, and reality, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 235-259.

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