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Ideas for 'Stipulation, Meaning and Apriority', 'Critique of Practical Reason' and 'Mind in a Physical World'

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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

2319	Metaphysics is the clarification of the ontological relationships between different areas of thought [Kim]
	Full Idea: Metaphysics is the domain where different languages, theories, explanations, and conceptual systems come together and have their mutual ontological relationships sorted out and clarified.
	From: Jaegwon Kim (Mind in a Physical World [1998], §3 p.066)

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science

6203	Metaphysics is just a priori universal principles of physics [Kant]
	Full Idea: Metaphysics only contains the pure a priori principles of physics in their universal import.
	From: Immanuel Kant (Critique of Practical Reason [1788], I.II.II.VI)
	A reaction: 'Universal' seems to imply 'necessary'. If you thought that no a priori universal principles were possible, you would be left with physics. I quite like the definition, except that I think there would still be metaphysics even if there were no physics.