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Originally Posted by VideCorSpoon  Metaphysics, or ontology, on the other hand seeks reduction to its simple substrate physically. |
Scientific inquiries can perform this kind of reductionism. Metaphysics deals in things that science cannot address. Metaphysics, to me, seems like a rational construct that can be used to understand being -- but as soon as metaphysics attempts to make sense of something observable, it puts itself at risk of being refuted by new observations. This raises the perennial question as to whether metaphysical arguments have any truth value whatsoever -- and Derrida and Levi-Strauss and Lyotard and Wittgenstein would probably answer that they do not.