Ontology and the Completeness of Sellars’s Two Images
Sellars claims completeness for both the “manifest” and the “scientific images” in a way that tempts one to assume that they are independent of each other, while, in fact, they must share at least one common element: the language of individual and community intentions. I argue that this significant...
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doaj-db142624612247daaeff2101c9b1ca7b2020-11-25T01:18:44ZengAssociazione Culturale Humana.MenteHumana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies1972-12932018-06-01521Ontology and the Completeness of Sellars’s Two ImagesWillem A. de Vries0University of New Hampshire, USA Sellars claims completeness for both the “manifest” and the “scientific images” in a way that tempts one to assume that they are independent of each other, while, in fact, they must share at least one common element: the language of individual and community intentions. I argue that this significantly muddies the waters concerning his claim of ontological primacy for the scientific image, though not in favor of the ontological primacy of the manifest image. The lesson I draw is that we need to re-assess the aims of ontology. http://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/178manifest imagescientific imageSellars |
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Sellars claims completeness for both the “manifest” and the “scientific images” in a way that tempts one to assume that they are independent of each other, while, in fact, they must share at least one common element: the language of individual and community intentions. I argue that this significantly muddies the waters concerning his claim of ontological primacy for the scientific image, though not in favor of the ontological primacy of the manifest image. The lesson I draw is that we need to re-assess the aims of ontology.
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