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Metaphysical assertions, I've said, are "the fundamental assertions that must somehow be made by each of us and that none of us can meaningfully deny." Elsewhere I've explained what I mean by this, or why it's so, by saying, for example, that "\[t\]hose statements are true metaphysically which I could not avoid believing to be true, at least implicitly, if I were to believe or exist at all; or, alternatively, they are the statements which would necessarily apply through any of my experiences, even my merely conceivable experiences, provided only that such experience was sufficiently reflected on."

"\[set forth\] a theory of ultimate reality in its structure in itself \[as distinct from its meaning for us\]";