HI DMB,
Steve said:
I'm wondering amount the image of the person selecting among paintings
in a gallery. If a person recognizes the contingency of all
metaphysical systems and sees herself in the position of selecting
among various philosophical systems with no meta-method for choosing
among them while maintaining the idea that none of these systems
represent reality but rather offer different descriptions that are
useful for different purposes, hasn't this person avoided being a
metaphysician?
dmb says:
Ha. Yea, maybe that's what it means to be ironic about metaphysics.
The ironist holds a metaphysical view that says there is no way to
choose a metaphysical view.
I don't understand the claims that metaphysics is unavoidable. Why must
we call "not seeing a way to privilege one metaphysical system above
all other possible views" itself a metaphysical view? Why not call this
a post-metaphysical perspective?
Best,
Steve
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