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Ideas for 'Writing the Book of the World', 'Necessity, Essence and Individuation' and 'The Common-Sense View of Reality'

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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics

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Metaphysics is hopeless with its present epistemology; common-sense realism is needed [Colvin]

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Your metaphysics is 'cheating' if your ontology won't support the beliefs you accept [Sider]

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

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Metaphysics is not about what exists or is true or essential; it is about the structure of reality [Sider]

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Extreme doubts about metaphysics also threaten to undermine the science of unobservables [Sider]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual

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It seems unlikely that the way we speak will give insights into the universe [Sider]

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Metaphysics is clarifying how we speak and think (and possibly improving it) [Sidelle]