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I find it significant that Hartshorne says of the so-called primary properties of physics essentially what he says of the first principles of metaphysics -- namelymetaphysics—namely, that they are "empty outlines" -- —"relational schema, not concrete descriptions of anything" ("In Defense of Wordsworth's View of Nature": 85; cf. "Religious Aspects of Neceessity Necessity and Contingency": 148, 164).

But what is the difference, if any, between the two sets of concepts? Is it simply a difference in degree of abstractness -- the abstractness—the properties of physics fitting the facts, the principles of metaphysics fitting the concepts that both fit and do not fit the facts?

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