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So understood, doing transcendental metaphysics, as one way among others of engaging with the world, constitutes a distinct domain of discourse – anddiscourse—and, insofar as its inquiries meet with success, a distinct domain of truth. The truths it pursues, however, are only necessary to, not sufficient for, the whole truth about anything, in that they describe nothing particular as such but only something universal about it. Even so, no description of anything particular is ever complete or fully explicit without them, because they are about the necessary common denominator of all possibilities, of all "possible worlds," or, better, of all conceivable kinds of world. This they are either in the strict sense excluding everything but the common core of all possibilities whatever, or in the broad sense including, in addition, the necessary common core of all of our own distinctive possibilities as those who exist understandingly and are thus able to engage with the world in all the different ways in which such engagement is either actual or possible. In this way, the truths sought by doing transcendental metaphysics in the broad sense inclusive of existentialist analysis describe only an abstract, all but empty, outline of reality, all of whose concrete contents are describable, if at all, only by other nontranscendental domains of discourse / truth.

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