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There are philosophers who even now want to be ontologically serious. We need, they tell us, to see the world rightly and to do this we must work out a fundamental ontology which will display the most basic features that the world must have. This is not a matter of careful experimental investigation linked with adroit and imaginative theory design but a matter, or in some way essentially a matter, of pure rigourous thought. Pure disciplined philosophical reflection will yield the basic categories of the world.
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Nielsen, K. (1989). On Being Ontologically Unserious. In: Heil, J. (eds) Cause, Mind, and Reality. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 47. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9734-2_16
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