Toward a working definition of metaphysics

pp. 97-101

in: James K. Feibleman, Paul G. Morrison, Andrew J. Reck, Harold N. Lee, Edward Ballard, Carl H. Hamburg, Robert C. Whittemore, Centennial year number, Berlin, Springer, 1959

Abstract

All metaphysical hypotheses seem to me to have a common aim:the explanation of experience.¹ The persistence of a great number and variety of metaphysical systems may then perhaps be explained by the consideration of the three component variables involved in this common aim.