Posted: Dec 07, 2016 7:53 am
Cito di Pense wrote:Little Idiot wrote:
Linguistic legerdemain and pedantic persnickety interlocution make a poor surrogate for metaphysical inquisition.
Bullshit. LL and PPI are the entirety of metaphysical waffle. There isn't anything into which to inquire, or we'd be there by now.
MI is not modeling, unless you're happy trying to instruct people about the content of the terms you use. If you spend all your time doing that, then you won't ever get to the modeling. That's par for the course in metaphysics.
You are half right and half wrong (as distinct from your other half being left).
You are right about some types of metaphysical inquiry, the type common in the way of thinking which is outwards looking. But you are mistaken to apply that to all inquiry. Inwards self enquiry needs none of that, no LL or PPI.
But there is little enough to gain from trading opinion about inquiry and more to be gained from the act of inquiring.