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Metaphysics is a matter of self-understanding – and understanding—and that in a twofold sense.

First of all, in the sense that the understanding of ultimate reality that it is the business of metaphysics to formulate clearly and coherently at the level of critical reflection and proper theory is the understanding always already given in and with any self-understanding and life-praxis, implicit or explicit, authentic or inauthentic. But, then, secondly, in the sense that the metaphysician's task at the level of critical reflection and proper theory is to understand her- or himself, i.e., what she or he, like every other human being, always already understands, implicitly or explicitly, authentically or inauthentically, at the level of self-understanding and life-praxis.

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