[MD] What is metaphysics to you?

[Steve Peterson]

Hi Arlo,

You said:
> Metaphysics for me represents the sum of the core assumptions we have
> about the world, and on a large scale color the social lenses we
> acquire as we become part of a culture.

Steve:
Are these assumptions different in nature than the sorts of dogmatic 
claims made by religions?

> A metaphysical shift does not
> change the world, but it changes the questions we ask and what
> answers we see. Metaphysics is the figure sorting sand against the
> endless landscape, it is the hand that wields the analytic knife of 
> Phaedrus.

Steve:
Are these statements about metaphysics themselves "core assumptions"?

Regards,
Steve