My take away is that Hawthorne successfully refutes Hirsche's superficialism and his conciliatory semantic schema application towards certain metaphysical debates.
A few things I'm curious about/would love to dive in deeper on:
- Hawthorne mentions that Superficialist tend to want to avoid verificationism (I didn't really get this to much).
- He references 'mereological nihilism' (something I hadn't prior outside of existentialist conversations) any insight here would be great. My best guess is that it's a theory that denies that existence of parts- (thanks wikipedia).
- IMO his strongest argument is that Superficialist tend to deflate metaphysical debates so much so that they overlook the nuances in opposing arguments.
- He references 'mereological nihilism' (something I hadn't prior outside of existentialist conversations) any insight here would be great. My best guess is that it's a theory that denies that existence of parts- (thanks wikipedia).