ABSTRACT
One approach to the study of metaphysics is to divide up metaphysicians or metaphysics into different types. While the following list of types is by no means logically exhaustive, it is of interest to take a brief journey through an assortment of the different varieties of metaphysics that are possible which provide the greatest contrast or similarity to the metaphysics of the present work. This chapter examines the metaphysics of Charles Hartshome and presents a comparison between specific metaphysical truth claims in Hartshorne's and in the present work. It also discusses the metaphysics of absolute presuppositions and Hegelian-Dialectical metaphysics or developmental metaphysics. Rationalist metaphysicians rely exclusively or nearly so upon the use of rational arguments to advance the cause of their metaphysical systems or definitions of metaphysics. The chapter argues that theistic metaphysics could be distinguished from theistic, religious metaphysics by stating that theistic metaphysics requires that the Deity is a metaphysical condition of the system.
