Just to add to my previous remarks:
metaphysics is the study of reality or "what is"
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Professor Shelley Tremain
Department of Philosophy
University of Toronto at Mississauga
Erindale College
3359 Mississauga Road N.
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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From: "Shelley Tremain" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: More about the Cure
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> see below...
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> From: "T W Shakespeare" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 4:21 AM
> Subject: Re: More about the Cure
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> Sorry, I can't agree with you about truth. I don't think truth is
> relative. There is such a thing as universal truth. I am a critical
> realist (insofar as I understand that philosophical position!). There
> are different ways of knowing and representing (epistemology) but only
> one reality (ontology).
>
>
> This is not quite right:
>
> an epistemology is a theory about knowledge
>
> an ontology is a theory about *being*
>
> metaphysics is the study of *reality*
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>
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