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- Title
Is Power Noumenal in Nature?
- Authors
Besch, Thomas M.
- Abstract
This paper engages Rainer Forst's doctrine of noumenal power. At the centre of this doctrine is its signature claim that power is noumenal in nature. I reconstruct Forst's definition of power and distinguish three conceptions of noumenal power in his writings. I argue that, on each conception, we should reject that claim. It emerges that the professed noumenality of power is either a trivial feature of power, or else a feature only of some forms of power. Consequently, Forst's definition of power cannot be adequate and the claim that power is noumenal in nature is either trivial or false.
- Subjects
FORST, Rainer; NATURE; TRUTHFULNESS &; falsehood; PLAUSIBILITY (Logic); JUSTIFICATION (Theory of knowledge)
- Publication
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 2021, Vol 60, Issue 2, p237
- ISSN
0012-2173
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0012217320000426