Reference, Description, and Explanation. Where Metaphysics Went Wrong?

Forum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 14 (2):175-191 (2009)
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The classical arguments against metaphysics provided by Immanuel Kant, neopositivists and recently by analytical philosophers focus on the problem of meaning. In my paper I would like to shed a little bit of light on different dimensions of this problem in the metaphysical discourse and make a proposition how to overcome the difficulties that arise from this kind of discourse.

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10.35765/forphil.2009.1402.16

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