Full Idea
Metaphysics, at bottom, is about the fundamental structure of reality. Not about what's necessarily true. Not about what properties are essential. Not about conceptual analysis. Not about what there is. Structure.
Gist of Idea
Metaphysics is not about what exists or is true or essential; it is about the structure of reality
Source
Theodore Sider (Writing the Book of the World [2011], 01)
Book Reference
Sider,Theodore: 'Writing the Book of the World' [OUP 2011], p.1
A Reaction
The opening words of his book. I take them to be absolutely correct, and to articulate the new orthodoxy about metaphysics which has emerged since about 1995. He expands this as being about patterns, categories and joints.