“Those who take knowledge to be a whole zoo of sub-disciplines will react to my giving metaphysics a privileged position in that zoo or to my thinking of knowledge as a tree, with more and less fundamental parts.” ThinkingGivingWholeTreePositionDisciplineFundamentalsMetaphysicsPrivilegedZoos Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like time, space, identity, resemblance, substance, property, fact, event, composition, possibility, etc., are the most fundamental concepts. Thus metaphysics is the most fundamental theoretical discipline.” FactsRealitySpaceStudyEventsIdentityPossibilityDisciplineConceptsFundamentalsStructurePropertySubstanceEtcCompositionMetaphysicsTheoreticalResemblance Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the roots of the tree.” FormTreeDisciplineRootsFundamentalsMetaphysicsTheoretical Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
