{"product_id":"metaphysics-sophistry-and-illusion-toward-a-widespread-non-factualism","title":"Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion Toward a Widespread Non-Factualism","description":"\u003cp\u003eMetaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion does two things. First, it introduces a novel kind of non-factualist view, and argues that we should endorse views of this kind in connection with a wide class of metaphysical questions, most notably, the abstract-object question and the composite-object question. (More specifically, Mark Balaguer argues that there's no fact of the matter whether there are any such things as abstract objects or composite objects--or\n\u003cbr\u003ematerial objects of any other kind.) Second, Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion explains how these non-factualist views fit into a general anti-metaphysical view called neo-positivism, and explains how we could\n\u003cbr\u003eargue that neo-positivism is true. Neo-positivism is the view that every metaphysical question decomposes into some subquestions--call them Q1, Q2, Q3, etc.--such that, for each of these subquestions, one of the following three anti-metaphysical views is true of it: non-factualism, or scientism, or metaphysically innocent modal-truth-ism.  These three views can be defined (very roughly) as follows:  non-factualism about a question Q is the view that there's no fact of the matter about the\n\u003cbr\u003eanswer to Q.  Scientism about Q is the view that Q is an ordinary empirical-scientific question about some contingent aspect of physical reality, and Q can't be settled with an a priori philosophical\n\u003cbr\u003eargument.  And metaphysically innocent modal-truth-ism about Q is the view that Q asks about the truth value of a modal sentence that's metaphysically innocent in the sense that it doesn't say anything about reality and, if it's true, isn't made true by reality\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46058710401262,"sku":"9780198868361","price":164.96,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780198868361.jpg?v=1736481170","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/metaphysics-sophistry-and-illusion-toward-a-widespread-non-factualism","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}