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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science

21366	Metaphysics must understand the world thoroughly, as a principal source of knowledge [Schopenhauer]
	Full Idea: The task of metaphysics is not to pass over experience in which the world exists, but to understand it thoroughly, since inner and outer experience are certainly the principal source of all knowledge.
	From: Arthur Schopenhauer (The World as Will and Idea [1819], I 428), quoted by Christopher Janaway - Schopenhauer 3 'Will'
	A reaction: I wonder to what extent he meant ordinary experience, and to what extent he was advocating the study if science?