Full Idea
Metaphysics is the enterprise of critically elucidating consilience networks across the sciences.
Clarification
'Consilience' is linking conclusions from different disciplines
Gist of Idea
Metaphysics builds consilience networks across science
Source
J Ladyman / D Ross (Every Thing Must Go [2007], 1.3)
Book Reference
Ladyman,J/Ross,D: 'Every Thing Must Go' [OUP 2007], p.28
A Reaction
I don't disagree with this. The issue, I think, is how abstract you are prepared to go. At high levels of abstraction, it is very hard to keep in touch with the empirical research. There are truths, though, at that high level. It is clearest in logic.