Metametaphysics

Started by Anders48, May 22, 2025, 03:36:38 PM

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Anders48

Tired of boring old metaphysics? Now there's metametaphysics!
In case ordinary metaphysics wasn't meta enough, this new and revolutionary field of philosophy lets you debate whether ordinary metaphysical debates are even meaningful in the first place. Baffle your friends by talking about 'language games', the 'possibility of metaphysics' and even the dreaded Quine. Who is Quine? No one knows! We can only guess at his identity through such mysterious Quinean utterances such as:

Quote from: Quine'Harry S. Truman' names Harry S. Truman and no one else.
Quote from: Quine'Schnee ist weiss' is true-in-German if and only if snow is white.
and finally,
Quote from: Quine'I have a headache' uttered by x at time t is true iff x has a headache at t.
...Or are these really Quinean utterances, as opposed to the work of sinister imposters? Sinister imposters who wish to conceal the true core of Quinean thought? What is an imposter in the first place? If the imposters are really right-handed, does it make them dexter imposters instead of sinister? Can Quine tell us? Can anyone? Is anything real? How do we know?

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I don't know why I wrote this.