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Metaphysics/ in the sense in which I understand it/ proceeds on the aSSUlnption assumption that/ just as we ourselves have an ilU"ler inner as well as an outer aspect/ so also does anything else that/ like ourselves/ is concrete and singular. On this assumption/ then/ Inetaphysics metaphysics seeks to explicate what is perforce necessarily implied about this ilU"ler inner aspect of all things by all that we think! say/ and do in somehow understanding ourselves/ others, and the whole and leading our lives accordingly.

This distinction between the "ilU"lerinner" and the "outer" aspects of things is obviously of a piece with the distinctions I Inake make between (1) the "existential" and the "elnpiricalempirical" aspects of experience and reality and their "vertical" and "horizontal" dilnensionsdimensions, and (2) "ultimate reality" and "inlmediate immediate reality/ or the "ultilnateultimate" and the "ilnnlediateimmediate" settings of selfunderstanding self-understanding and life-praxis.

11 December 2005; rev. 11 Decelnber December 2006