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Nikolaj Pilgaard Petersen, PhD. The Importance of Metaphysics as traditionally conceived. Metametaphysics.

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[AbebechYaregal]

The core concept you've so eloquently expressed holds significant importance in Ethiopian culture. Perhaps a conversation with Dr. Abraham Amaha, a lecturer at Addis Ababa University, could provide valuable insights and answer some of your internal inquiry.

[McRingil]

A very good video very much appreciated, very much liked the part about Kant and naturalized epistemology, where can I read more about the criticisms of these? I`m sorry for the rant below, but it`s an important point.

[McRingil]

What exists is not exactly the issue of metaphysics. The central issue is the study of being qua being, i.e. the study of what does it mean to exist and what are the causes of this particular thing existing. Creating a full list of categories assumes some full conception of being we know and can dissect. Aristotle never does this in Physics or Metaphysics. He does this in the Categories which is a logical treatise and it`s based on linguistical analysis (Hintikka shows this beautifully). Categories of beings is an issue of logic, conceiving it the main point of metaphysics is more akin to modern ontology in the Wolffian sense. In it you have a concept of all possible being in your mind and study it. That is rightly called ontotheology by Kant. In traditional metahysics you start from an empirical existential claim and you study what are the conditions of its possibility (what are the causes of this thing`s existence). You only know the particular mode of existence of the things you know. Not the full concept of being which is analogical. Metaphysics is only accidentally concerned with the question 'what exists' insofar as it asks whether there are parts, principles or entities responsible for the existence of the things we know.