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| 15390 | Metaphysics attempts to give an account of everything, in terms of categories and principles |
| Full Idea: Metaphysics, the noblest of philosophic enterprises, is an attempt to give an account of everything. ...Its job is to provide a universal framework (of categories and principles) within which anything whatever can take its place. | |||
| From: Peter Simons (Whitehead: process and cosmology [2009], 'Speculative') | |||
| A reaction: Bravo! I take metaphysics to be entirely continuous with science, but operating entirely at the highest level of generality. See Westerhoff on categories, though. The enterprise may not be going too well. |