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Full Idea
Metaphysics, the noblest of philosophic enterprises, is an attempt to give an account of everything. ...Its job is to provide a universal framework (of categories and principles) within which anything whatever can take its place.
Gist of Idea
Metaphysics attempts to give an account of everything, in terms of categories and principles
Source
Peter Simons (Whitehead: process and cosmology [2009], 'Speculative')
Book Ref
'Routledge Companion to Metaphysics', ed/tr. Le Poidevin/Simons etc [Routledge 2012], p.188
A Reaction
Bravo! I take metaphysics to be entirely continuous with science, but operating entirely at the highest level of generality. See Westerhoff on categories, though. The enterprise may not be going too well.