>To illustrate: there is common belief that metaphysics became irrelevant -- that it was replaced by science. This is, in itself, a metaphysical position I thi

>To illustrate: there is common belief that metaphysics became irrelevant -- that it was replaced by science. This is, in itself, a metaphysical position I think that is wrong. What happened is that we realized we knew so little about physics that most of our meta-physical ideas were basically a case of "garbage in, garbage out." We had bad physics, and so we also had bad meta-physics. So we put meta-physics on hold until we had a body of physical knowledge that wasn't garbage to get meta about. That's why all these "advances in metaphysics" are all physics discoveries.