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Also I thought that 20th century analytic thought dissolved metaphysics entirely and didn't want to talk about it. I mean sure then you can question, "why delete metaphysics" but then you can't say that the 20th century brought this kind of stuff

> It treated ontological Being as fixed, as beings nailed to a wall, lifeless and immobile.

This reads more as a response to Plato & Kant



"didn't want to talk about it", absolutely. "dissolved metaphysics entirely", absolutely not.


Look, I read Continental philosophers too and I think they're cool, my point is that that kind of statement isn't what an analytic philosopher would say




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