Structure and Being: A Theoretical Framework for a Systematic Philosophy

摘要

Recognizing that factual observations such as "the sun rises every day" and "the earth rotates daily on its axis" can be reconciled once they are properly situated, Puntel proposes a philosophical research program that systematically compares and orders theoretical frameworks with the goal of articulating (in the language of formal logic) the most comprehensive framework yet achievable. Puntel finds here an alternative to the materialist ontology that analytic philosophers take for granted when translating everyday speech into first-order predicate logic, using an existential quantifier that carries illegitimate ontological baggage: there is no "x" apart from the facts themselves.