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If "it is trifling with philosophical problems to accept as valid questions and answers that have no conceivable bearing on how we propose to live" (TO:373 f.),  then how can any "speculative philosophy," or "categorial metaphysics," escape the charge of "trifling" in this sense? 

Wiki MarkupSo, too, if "the pragmatic principle \ [holds\] that a metaphysics must be livable, must have a  reasonable relation to how one lives" (PCH:  687), how can any "categorial metaphysics"  as such, must be livable, must have a  reasonable relation to how one lives" (PCH:  687), how can any "categorial metaphysics"  as such, i.e., as distinct from the transcendental metaphysics it necessarily implies, possibly pass muster as a valid metaphysics? from the transcendental metaphysics it necessarily implies, possibly pass muster as a valid metaphysics? 

February 1998