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Wilfrid Sellars distinguishes helpfully between "the 'manifest image' -- or our pretheoretical, ordinary conception of the world \[ -- \] and the 'scientific image' \[ -- \-] or the world as science tells us it is" (so Lynch, _True to Life_: 75). But metaphysics, correctly understood, is concerned with neither -- unless, of course, "scientific" is used in a very broad sense that includes metaphysics as well as science proper (as it is used, e.g., in Scholz's title, _Metaphysik als strenge Wissenschaft_, or in Heidegger's statement that "_es gibt notwendig zwei Grundmöglichkeiten von Wissenschaft: Wissenschaften vom Seienden, ontische Wissenschaften und_ die _Wissenschaft vom Sein, die ontologische Wissenschaft, die Philosophie_" \[Phänomenologie und Theologie: 14; italics in the text\]).