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Full Idea
Metaphysical enquiry can survive if we are willing to live with highly tentative conclusions.
Gist of Idea
Metaphysical enquiry can survive if its conclusions are tentative
Source
Theodore Sider (Four Dimensionalism [2001], Intro)
Book Ref
Sider,Theodore: 'Four Dimensionalism' [OUP 2003], p.-8
A Reaction
Nice. Nothing alienates the rather literal scientific sort of mind quicker that bold, dogmatic and even arrogant assertions about metaphysics. But to entirely close down metaphysical speculation for that reason is absurd.