Autor: Flanagan, Josef

Buch: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Titel: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Stichwort: Metaphysik; erklärende, beschreibende Wissenschaft

Kurzinhalt: Nur erklärende, nicht beschreibende Wissenschaft enthüllt etwas von der inneren Struktur der Dinge; ist Kalk weiß?

Textausschnitt: Descriptive knowing does not reveal the intrinsic structure of the being of things and of the reality of their operating relations.

() In setting up a metaphysical, explanatory theory of genera and species, it is important to know whether the science is still in a descriptive, descriptive-explanatory, or purely explanatory stage.