What is Metaphysics? It is the study of the one substance that necessarily exists and causes / connects the many material things we observe. It is useful to quote Aristotle since he first formalised the subject of metaphysics.
The first philosophy (Metaphysics) is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. … And here we will have the science to study that which is just as that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which, just as a thing that is, it has.
The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest. And to seek for this is to seek for the second kind of principle, that from which comes the beginning of the change. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, 340BC)
2. The one substance is this space we all experience existing in. As only one substance, space, exists it cannot be bounded by, created from, or contain another substance – thus it is necessarily infinite, eternal and continuous.
3. What are the Properties of Space? It is a continuously connected wave medium – it has waves flowing through it. (It may have more properties – I do not know.)
4. The many material things that we see as discrete and separate ‘particles’ moving around in this space are really formed from wave motions of this space (space is vibrating).
5. By describing matter with a spherical in out wave structure we can understand how the particle effect forms at the wave center and also how this ‘particle’ is in continual two way communication with other matter waves in the space around it.
The Essay on Metaphysics and Monism
People are monists, dualists or pluralists depending on whether or not they believe that reality is composed of one, two or more substances. These positions may be represented as here indicated. Hindus, Buddhists and Animists are for the most part monists. They believe that reality is one and that everything that exists is a functioning part of that whole which is spirit. Western man for the most ...
6. This simplifies metaphysics from the motion of matter particles in space and time to the wave motion of space that causes matter and time. i.e. From a metaphysics of space and time to a metaphysics of space and (wave) motion.
7. This unites Science (empirical: we all experience existing in space; Occam’s razor: simplicity of only space existing) with Metaphysics (space is the unity of substance which explains causal connection).
8. By correcting the errors of both these subjects we can then solve the central problems of knowledge in physics and philosophy as a foundation for solving the central problems confronting humanity and our future survival on earth.
9. This is not just an academic discussion on metaphysics, it is physical reality – how you exist as matter in space and interact with the rest of the matter of our observable universe.
10. This is the source of truth and wisdom – both necessary for our future survival.
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What is Metaphysics: Discussion / Deductions
Metaphysics now has a reputation for being fanciful and ultimately empty of meaning. This is not due to the subject of metaphysics itself (as conceived by Aristotle), but rather due to the failure of philosophers / metaphysicists to solve the fundamental problem of metaphysics, i.e.
“What is the one substance that exists and causes and connects our world of many different things?”
The following quotes from Aristotle, Leibniz and Bradley explain this well.
The first philosophy (Metaphysics) is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. … And here we will have the science to study that which is just as that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which, just as a thing that is, it has.
The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest. And to seek for this is to seek for the second kind of principle, that from which comes the beginning of the change. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, 340BC)
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What is Metaphysics?
Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. … I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general. (Gottfried Leibniz, 1670)
We may agree, perhaps, to understand by Metaphysics an attempt to know reality as against mere appearance, or the study of first principles or ultimate truths, or again the effort to comprehend the universe, not simply piecemeal or by fragments, but somehow as a whole. (Bradley, 1846-1924)
A simple way to explain metaphysics is to simply drop a ball. Notice that you do not see any obvious connection between the ball and the earth – yet they are obviously connected because we see the effect of this connection, the ball moves (accelerates) towards the earth. The same argument applies to the Earth orbiting the sun, an electron in an atom, how we can see stars across the universe.
