ABSTRACT
A modern neglect of appealing to Nature for integrated and objective truth in science, theology, ethics, and politics is rooted in mischievous answers to ‘Whence comes truth if not from metaphysics?’ If a metaphysics of freedom and causal determinism are presupposed for coherent moral and scientific inquiries, but the inquiries are undercut by not knowing a truth of the metaphysics, then a basis other than metaphysics is needed for ‘truth.’ What or who were the new substitutes for metaphysical truth?
