A fun night of stargazing at Entoto Park

Andro Meda Metaphysics for children. A fun night of stargazing at Entoto Park. It is distinguished, in part, from physics and other branches of science by the a priori character of its methods. The claims of science rest on observation; the claims of metaphysics do not, except perhaps incidentally. Its findings issue from the study rather than from the laboratory. Some philosophers have thought that the distinction between the prior and the a posteriori is not absolute but one of degree. I am not of their view. But philosophers of this persuasion would presumably be happy to take metaphysics relatively a priori to the same degree, and perhaps in much the same way, as logic or pure mathematics. And with this qualification in place, a large part, though not all, of what I want to say will still go through. Metaphysics is also distinguished from other branches of philosophy, not by the priority of its methods but by the generality of its concerns. Other components of philosophy deal with this or that aspect of reality – justice and well-being, for example, or feeling and thought. Metaphysics, on the other hand, deals with the most general traits of reality – with value, say, or mind. The concepts of metaphysics are also distinguished by their transparency.