zaterdag 24 februari 2024

Another flaw in the argument from ancestrality

While proofreading my paper Prison break? In defense of correlationism, I noticed that Meillassoux’s ancestral argument against correlationism as developed in his book After finitude fails for yet another reason. He takes it that since the correlationist must accept that the transcendental subject is situated in what this subject refers to as ‘the world’, it follows that the correlationist must also accept that the transcendental level is instantiated in the world. But this doesn’t follow. The transcendental subject may be part of the world, but the transcendental level as being a condition for knowledge instead of being an object of knowledge isn’t.

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