Full Idea
If metaphysical possibility extends more widely than physical possibility, this may make metaphysics out to be nothing but the analysis of fantastical descriptions produced by philosophers.
Gist of Idea
Wide metaphysical possibility may reduce metaphysics to analysis of fantasies
Source
Tim Maudlin (The Metaphysics within Physics [2007], 7 Epilogue)
Book Reference
Maudlin,Tim: 'The Metaphysics within Physics' [OUP 2007], p.188
A Reaction
Maudlin wants metaphysics to be firmly constrained in its possibilities by what scientific undestanding permits, and he is right. Metaphysics must integrate into science, or wither away on the margins.
Related Idea
Idea 15099 If something is possible, but not nomologically possible, we need metaphysical possibility [Shoemaker]