The Problem of Metaphysics And the Meaning of Metaphysical Explanation An Essay
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In addition, two kinds of likeness, or sameness in repetition, have been noted. First, the likeness of two or. More events differing only in time or space, and second, the likeness of the common element in the particular to the same content abstracted as the universal. To gain a more accurate idea of the meaning and function of the universal, let us see how it is used in reasoning. When in two judgments we have, as we say, the same idea, which is to serve as a middle term, we have this same ide...a only in two different contexts or instances, hence as two like events. These two events — or in judgments, ideas — can never coa- lesce because they are two, and consequently the common 78 THE PROBLEM OF METAPHYSICS [78 element can never be self-identical. It can only be the same in sense II. , or like in the first sense of likeness. Yet so long as they remain two, so long as they are discrete, there can be no synthesis. The synthetic inference must be mediated by the universal, and it is of this process that we must in- quire.
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