[MD] Ironistic Metaphysics

[Steve Peterson]

HI DMB,

>
> Steve said:
> I'm wondering amount the image of the person selecting among paintings 
> in a gallery. If a person recognizes the contingency of all 
> metaphysical systems and sees herself in the position of selecting 
> among various philosophical systems with no meta-method for choosing 
> among them while maintaining the idea that none of these systems 
> represent reality but rather offer different descriptions that are 
> useful for different purposes, hasn't this person avoided being a 
> metaphysician?
>
>
> dmb says:
> Ha. Yea, maybe that's what it means to be ironic about metaphysics. 
> The ironist holds a metaphysical view that says there is no way to 
> choose a metaphysical view.

I don't understand the claims that metaphysics is unavoidable. Why must 
we call "not seeing a way to privilege one metaphysical system above 
all other possible views" itself a metaphysical view? Why not call this 
a post-metaphysical perspective?

Best,
Steve