METAPHYSICS ONTOLOGIES OFTEN CENTER ON MIND-BODY & MAY DEAL IN ISSUES OF COMPLEMENTARITY (APPARENT CONTRADCTORY PROPERTIES: eg WAVE, PARTICLE)

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METAPHYSICS ONTOLOGIES OFTEN CENTER ON MIND-BODY & MAY DEAL IN ISSUES OF COMPLEMENTARITY (APPARENT CONTRADCTORY PROPERTIES: eg WAVE, PARTICLE)

SOME IDEALISTS PLATO: Ideal Forms, Justified belief HEGEL: Monism: identity of Being and Thought

SOME MATERIALISTS Democritus: Matter and Void Hobbes: All is matter and motion Marx: Thesis on Democritus

SOME DUALISTS ARISTOTLE: World material, Mind immaterial AQUINAS: Reinvent Aristotle for Church DESCARTES: Substance dualism

EPISTEMOLOGISTS Classifications of various epistemologies and metaphysics are not always consistent

EMPIRICISM HUME: Knowledge comes through senses DENNETT: Mind equals Brain

RATIONALISM PLATO: Knowledge through reason DESCARTES: Doubt the senses LEIBNIZ: Math is innate CHOMSKY: Language is innate

CONSTRUCTIVISM VICO (fl1700 ) : The true and the fabricated are convertible. History progresses and so does knowledge

OVERLAP? ARISTOTLE: Sense plus rational mind LOCKE: Noumena & phenomena (internal & external experience) DESCARTES: Rationality clears the shadows