Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• Mohammad reza Abdollah nejad

Abstract

The present paper has been made up of three main parts. First part
begins with a question on which the whole structure of the paper has
been based. The question is that "whether Strawson,s Descriptive
Metaphysics is a doctrine or not?." It seems that some difficulties in
correct understanding of Descriptive Metaphysics and the quality of
its relation to Revisionary Metaphysics arise when we consider
Descriptive Metaphysics as a doctrine.
Investigation about this problem goes on with the question that
"how does Descriptive Metaphysics describe our general conceptual
structures and their interconnexion?." In the second part, we show that
Strawson describes them via connective linguistic analysis. Therefore,
we "through determining the nature of Strawson,s analytical approach
and charting it,s relation to the question "how does analysis require
metaphysics?".attempt to bring an evidence in order to prove our
claim that "Descriptive Metaphysics is not a doctrine, but it is an
analytical approach to proposed metaphysical problemes and doctrines
in every epoch and society
Drawing the conclusion and proving the above – mentioned claim
in the third part, we refer to some questions and ambiguities which
may be distract our claim. The most important of them is the question
that "if Descriptive Metaphysics is not a doctrine, why Strawson
makes inquiry into structural elements and their interconnexion?."
Ultimately, we complete our claim by answering that question.

Keywords

• descriptive metaphysics
• revisionary metaphysics
• connective linguistic Analysis
• The Analogy of grammer
• pre – theoretical notions