One potential remedy to the clash between the scientific and the manifest image is eliminativism. This is the view that ordinary objects like tables and chairs do not exist but are merely configurations of fundamental particles. The chapter examines how the eliminativist approach attempts to resolve the clash and provides answers to longstanding metaphysical puzzles.

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Eliminating Ordinary Objects

  • Arthur C. Schwaninger

摘要

One potential remedy to the clash between the scientific and the manifest image is eliminativism. This is the view that ordinary objects like tables and chairs do not exist but are merely configurations of fundamental particles. The chapter examines how the eliminativist approach attempts to resolve the clash and provides answers to longstanding metaphysical puzzles.