The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things (169 page)

Descartes on

Descartes on necessity and possibility Wittgenstein on Wittgenstein on necessity and possibility analyticity
a priority
applied to knowledge Leibniz’ conception of necessity Leibniz’ notion of a possible world Leibniz’ notion of compossibility Lewis’ notion of a possible world Wittgenstein’s early conception of logic

negation
143
,
163n4
,
166
,
173
–174,
179
–181,
182n63
,
184
–186,
399
–400,
419
–420,
423n46
,
474
,
482n74
,
491
,
550
,
555
,
557
,
565

See also
absence
,
nothingness
,
principle of contradiction

Nehamas, Alexander
404n103

neo-Kantians
447n52

Neurath, Otto
311

his ‘ship’ image
311
,
324
,
326
,
429
,
473
,
604

Newton, Isaac
126
,
131
–132,
191
,
488
,
490

Nicholas of Cusa
252n79

Nicol, Pierre
198n12

Nietzsche, Elisabeth
373n2

Nietzsche, Friedrich
70n11
,
371
–405 passim,
475
,
515
–516,
529n49
,
543
,
546
–549,
554
,
555n41
,
567n68
,
580n98
,
582
,
583n1
,
598
–599

contra
Hegel
391
,
396
,
399
–400,
550
,
558
,
602

contra
Kant
111n11
,
374
–376,
384
–385

his assault on morality
54n37
,
371
–372,
375
,
377
,
397
–398,
548
,
601

his idea of eternal return
389
,
400
–404,
475
,
545
–546,
549
,
559
,
561
,
570
,
580

his nihilism
391
–392,
395
–396,
400
,
404
,
601

his perspectivism
74n22
,
379
–383,
387
,
407
,
408n5
,
516

his view that God is dead
387
–388,
390
–391,
398
,
399n81
,
400n85
,
579
,
594n17
,
601

in relation to Spinoza
46n9
,
179n53
,
396
–399,
400n87
,
420
–421,
422n41
,
423n46
,
544
,
547
–549,
595(
–596),
19

on asceticism
376
–378,
380
–381,
387
,
390
–395,
396n73
,
399

See also
active forces versus reactive forces
,
Nietzschean
ressentiment
,
Zarathustra

Nietzschean
ressentiment
395n72
,
396n73
,
567

nihilism.

Nietzsche’s nihilism

Nolan, David
332n8

non-propositional knowledge and understanding
6
–7,
60n55
,
65
–66,
141
,
220
–221,
241n55
,
247(
–248)n71,
251
,
253
,
267
,
271n55
,
360
–362,
365
,
422
–425,
481
,
492
,
512
,
533
,
539
,
541
,
566
,
569
,
574n84
,
577

non-propositional sense and sense-making

See also
Wittgenstein, ineffability in his early work

non-propositional sense and sense-making
186n77
,
242
,
251
,
253
–254,
260
,
406
,
480
–485 passim,
508
,
510
–512,
529n49
,
532
–539 passim,
574
,
576
–577,
582
–584,
588n6
,
589
–590,
598
–599

ineffability in Wittgenstein’s early work

See also
non-propositional knowledge and understanding

nonsense: Deleuze’s conception of
279
–283 passim,
288
,
291
–293,
294(
–295),
48
,
296
–299,
318n43
,
347
,
506

Deleuze’s conception of sense and nonsense
vis-à-vis
logical positivism

vis-à-vis
the
Tractatus
224
–226,
229
–230,
235n37
,
236
–254 passim,
260
–261,
268n43
,
281
,
288
,
292n39
,
293
,
294(
–295),
48
,
299
,
347
,
361
–362,
365
,
455
,
482
,
484
,
512
,
534
–535,
537n72
,
565
–566,
581
,
584
,
589

nothingness
172
–173,
182
–183,
216
,
281
,
291
,
389
,
476n54
,
478n59
,
482
–484,
491
,
514n6
,
553

See also
absence
,
negation

Novalis
49

novelty, radical.
See
radical novelty

Novelty Question
9
–13,
14
,
17
,
20
,
52n31
,
104n45
,
192
,
197
–198,
221n79
,
276
–278,
296
,
319n44
,
367
–368,
405
,
427
,
457n75
,
479n64
,
508
,
580
,
589n8
,
593
–594,
599
–600

numerical difference.
See
under
difference

numerical identity.
See
under
identity

ontic sense-making
491
–492

ontological argument for the existence of God
32n17
,
496
–497,
501
,
506

ontology.

Carnap’s internal/external distinction Deleuze on difference Descartes’ arguments for the existence of God Descartes’ mind/body dualism Heidegger’s Being/beings distinction Heidegger’s fine individuation of beings Heidegger’s notion of
Dasein
Heidegger’s present-at-hand/ready-to-hand distinction Kantian things in themselves Leibniz’ idealism/monadology Leibniz’ notion of a possible world Lewis’ notion of a possible world Nietzsche’s notion of eternal return Quine on ontological commitment Quine’s physicalism

See
idealism
,
identity
,
nothingness
,
ontological argument for the existence of God
,
physicalism
,
Platonism
,
substance
,
univocity of being
,
varieties of transcendence

Kantian things in themselves Leibniz’ idealism/monadology Leibniz’ notion of a possible world Lewis’ notion of a possible world Nietzsche’s notion of eternal return Quine on ontological commitment Quine’s physicalism

See
nothingness
,
ontological argument for the existence of God
,
physicalism
,
Platonism
,
substance
,
univocity of being
,
varieties of transcendence

Quine on ontological commitment Quine’s physicalism

See
substance
,
univocity of being
,
varieties of transcendence

‘ordinary language’ philosophy
11
,
256(
–257),
9

Oresme
557n50

Overbeck, Franz
397