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On Metaphysics

According to W. A. Christian, there is a general logic of inquiry that can be and is specified in accordance with various special interests, thereby giving rise to such special inquiries as are characteristic of science, morality, religion, and so on.

The question is whether metaphysics is to be reckoned among the undertakings whose characteristic inquiries can be thus accounted for. Clearly, if the answer is affirmative, the inquiry characteristic of metaphysics can only be conceived as the inquiry specified by the "special" interest necessarily involved in, or implied by, all special interests – iinterests—i.e., the existential interest – in interest—in which case, metaphysics is conceived as indistinguishable from philosophy.

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3 April 1982; rev. 5 August 2002 2002