“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
“Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge.” ThinkingGivingMetaphysicsGrammarMisunderstood 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
“The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational role. Lack of clarity in the concepts of metaphysics implies lack of clarity in other disciplines - both theoretical and practical disciplines - employing those concepts or employing concepts that depend on those of metaphysics.” NaturalRolesDependsDisciplineConceptsRelationPhilosophicalIncludingPracticalsClarityMetaphysicsTheoreticalNatural ScienceEmploying 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
