Abstract
Ontology is the name of the philosophical discipline that provides answers about what there is. The view laid out in the paper, i.e. austere realism, is realistic in that it defends the existence of a thought and language independent world. It is also inclined towards austerity in that it does not take this world to be as richly ontologically populated with entities as common sense initially presupposes. Yet it is a view that results from common sense taking a reflexive attitude about its ontological commitments. Despite its austere consequences, according to this view, many thoughts and sentences expressed by common sense are true, provided that truth is not considered as direct correspondence, i.e. not as the ultimate ontological correspondence to the world. This is enabled by the construal of truth as indirect correspondence that merges the world and contextually operative semantic standards. Such a combined ontological cum semantic view seems a plausible and a well defendable position.
Highlights
Inclusivist Approaches in PhilosophyPhilosophy has to do with several basic questions such as: What can I know? What should I do? What is there? The first of these questions is dedicated to knowledge and to a discipline investigating its forms and preconditions, epistemology
Ontology is the name of the philosophical discipline that provides answers about what there is
The view laid out in the paper, i.e. austere realism, is realistic in that it defends the existence of a thought and language independent world
Summary
Philosophy has to do with several basic questions such as: What can I know? What should I do? What is there? The first of these questions is dedicated to knowledge and to a discipline investigating its forms and preconditions, epistemology. Ontology as a philosophical discipline is involved in the business of laying out and straightening the categories that are employed in assessing the independently existing external world These categories depend upon language and thought and again, at least in part, upon the subjective capacity of the involved persons. In this quick overture we have preliminarily characterized the inclusivist approach in philosophy for the disciplines of epistemology, moral theory and ontology. The dialectics of engagement in answering the mentioned questions reveals that an inclusive outcome is really preferable Such an inclusivist approach will be quickly elaborated for the area of ontology in what follows
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