The widespread development of metaphysical debates in the last decades of analytic philosophy has been accompanied by deep-seated doubts about the very viability and ambitions of metaphysics. For instance, Hirsch’s quantifier variance has brought back into the spotlight the Carnap/Quine dichotomy on the status of ontology and metaphysics—indeed many share the suspicion that many issues of metaphysics do not have the theoretical significance they are thought to have, and rather display the superficiality and arbitrariness of questions like “does a fist come into being when I close my fingers?”. Therefore, “easy ontologies” now…
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