Full Idea
Metaphysics is the science of being, not merely as given in physical experience, but of being in general, its laws and types.
Gist of Idea
Metaphysics is the science of both experience, and its general laws and types
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (Reasoning and the Logic of Things [1898], I)
Book Reference
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Reasoning and the Logic of Things', ed/tr. Ketner,K.L. [Harvard 1992], p.116
A Reaction
I agree with this. The question then is whether such a science is possible. Dogmatic empiricists think not. Explanatory empiricists (me) think it is.