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One way of formulating my issue is this: How are we to understand and practice both metaphysics and philosophy – -- in their difference as well as their relatedness?

Whereas Hartshorne and Whitehead, in their different ways, tend to assimilate metaphysics to philosophy, I, in my way, insist on their difference – -- arguing that metaphysics is austerely scient or intellectual, while philosophy, by contrast, is eminently sapient or existential, notwithstanding that, in its first, analytic phase, which culminates in metaphysics, philosophy certainly is intellectual.

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