Full Idea
There is an unfortunate tendency to conflate epistemological issues bearing on explanation with issues in metaphysics.
Gist of Idea
Questions of explanation should not be confused with metaphyics
Source
John Heil (The Universe as We Find It [2012], 01.2)
Book Reference
Heil,John: 'The Universe as We Find It' [OUP 2012], p.3
A Reaction
This is where Heil and I part ways. I just don't believe in the utterly pure metaphysics which he thinks we can do. Our drive to explain moulds our vision of reality, say I.