Franks, All or Nothing: Glossary [Update]

The TPN reading group is currrently working its way through Paul Franks, All or Nothing: Systematicity, Transcendental Arguments, and Skepticism in German Idealism. I for one am finding it difficult to keep track of all the dualisms and monisms. So here is a first bash at a glossary. I shall be updating this as we move through the book. Page numbers appear in brackets.

MONISTIC DEMAND: "every genuine grounding participate in a single systematic unity of grounds, terminating in a sinle absolute ground" (20)

DUALISTIC DEMAND: "physical grounding and metaphysical grounding be kept rigorously separate." (20)

DERIVATION MONISM: "the view that, in an adequate philosophical system, the a priori conditions of experience must somehow be derived from a single, absolute first principle." (17)

DERIVABILITY MONISM: "the explanatory conditions to which modern physics appeals--namely, the primary properties of matter--must be in prinicple derivablefrom a set of metaphysical conditions--namely the intrinsic proterties of the substances whose coexistence constitues the best of all possible worlds--that are grounded in an absolute first principle--namely God" (21)

DEPENDENCE MONISM: "physical community is an appearance of--and to that extent dependent upon--metaphysical community, which has an absolute ground." (36)

HOLISTIC MONISM I - THE HOLISTIC REQUIREMENT: "in an adequate philosophical system, emprical items must be such that all their properties are determinable only within the context of a totality composed of other items and their properties." (85)

HOLISTIC MONISM II - THE MONISTIC REQUIREMENT: "in an adequate philosophical system, the absolute first principle must be immanent within the aforementioned totality, as it's principle of unity." (85)

MONADIC INDIVIDUALISM: "properties can be instantiated only if they are borne by individuals, which possess some intrinsic properties." (86)

NEGATIVE THESIS: "what we ordinarily call things are not substances in the transcendental sense" (92)

POSITIVE THESIS: "what we ordinarily call things are modes of a single substance in the transcendental sense: a single infinitely intelligible whole" (92)

HETEROGENEITY REQUIREMENT: "ensuring the heterogeneity of the absolutely unconditioned to every member of the conditions." (102)

DERIVATIONAL ASYMMETRY: "the totality is progressively derivable from the absolute, but the absolute is not regressively derivable from the totality." (129)

More soon!