ABSTRACT
Even among philosophers, the part of philosophy called metaphysics enjoys today no great popularity, but rather is the subject of many structures. This chapter presents extracts from the address given by the author on the method of knowledge in philosophy on the occasion of the Howison Lecture for 1944. One of the basic maxims of knowledge-yielding method in philosophy should be that, when a question is to be investigated, one should not only ask oneself just which facts it is about, but also state them explicitly. The problems of theoretical physics, it would be granted, have remote but practical implications for the task of putting into the hands of the plain man, the means to attain the physical ends he chooses to pursue. The analysis of the nature and logical status, it seems to be in essential agreement with conclusions reached by J. Loewenberg in a penetrating article entitled 'The Question of Priority'.
