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[ENG] This paper examines Sellars’ views on the epistemic status of philosophical propositions, an issue that has not received much attention in the field of metaphilosophy or in Sellars’ scholarship. It is suggested that, according to Sellars, philosophical propositions are normative and practically oriented. They do not form a theory for the description of reality; their function is, rather, that of motivating actions which aim at changing reality. I further argue that the role of philosophical proposition can be illuminated if they are understood as a special kind of (proposed) ‘material’ rules of inference, provided that the latter are construed as being firmly entrenched in practice. |
An interpretation of Sellars' views on the epistemic status of philosophical propositions