| 12123 | Natural history supports physical knowledge, which supports metaphysical knowledge [Bacon] |
| 21962 | Metaphysics is the roots of the tree of science [Descartes] |
| 7653 | I am just an under-labourer, clearing the ground in preparation for knowledge [Locke] |
| 16710 | Leibniz tried to combine mechanistic physics with scholastic metaphysics [Leibniz, by Pasnau] |
| 21366 | Metaphysics must understand the world thoroughly, as a principal source of knowledge [Schopenhauer] |
| 14799 | Metaphysics rests on observations, but ones so common we hardly notice them [Peirce] |
| 21582 | Physicists accept particles, points and instants, while pretending they don't do metaphysics [Russell] |
| 6095 | The business of metaphysics is to describe the world [Russell] |
| 22153 | Quine rejects Carnap's view that science and philosophy are distinct [Quine, by Boulter] |
| 22438 | Philosophy is largely concerned with finding the minimum that science could get by with [Quine] |
| 6891 | Quine's naturalistic and empirical view is based entirely on first-order logic and set theory [Quine, by Mautner] |
| 15477 | Ontology is highly abstract physics, containing placeholders and exclusions [Martin,CB] |
| 15670 | The aim of 'post-metaphysical' philosophy is to interpret the sciences [Habermas, by Finlayson] |
| 13567 | Ontology should give insight into or an explanation of the world revealed by science [Ellis] |
| 4194 | Metaphysics is concerned with the fundamental structure of reality as a whole [Lowe] |
| 14977 | Metaphysics is not about what exists or is true or essential; it is about the structure of reality [Sider] |
| 14994 | Extreme doubts about metaphysics also threaten to undermine the science of unobservables [Sider] |
| 16241 | The metaphysics of nature should focus on physics [Maudlin] |
| 14904 | Metaphysics builds consilience networks across science [Ladyman/Ross] |
| 14907 | Progress in metaphysics must be tied to progress in science [Ladyman/Ross] |
| 14908 | Metaphysics must involve at least two scientific hypotheses, one fundamental, and add to explanation [Ladyman/Ross] |
| 14910 | Some science is so general that it is metaphysical [Ladyman/Ross] |
| 14940 | Cutting-edge physics has little to offer metaphysics [Ladyman/Ross] |
| 14945 | The aim of metaphysics is to unite the special sciences with physics [Ladyman/Ross] |
| 22138 | Science rests on scholastic metaphysics, not on Hume, Kant or Carnap [Boulter] |