ABSTRACT
The reconstitution of F. H. Bradley's remark would read: metaphysics consists in finding good reasons for what in phenomenological experience is discovered to be true. In Albert Einstein’s universe, at certain speeds, there is a change in mass, or space. The existence of phenomenological truth is itself dependent upon the existence of ontological truth, and the analogous correspondence of that phenomenological truth with that ontological truth. If one can arrive at some version of metaphysical knowledge of reality, then the subject knower has access to at least an analogical knowledge of things-in-themselves. A typical rejoinder is that one can arrive at the idea of perfection simply by the process of adding increments of "bettemess" to everyday imperfect experience. The problem with metaphysics in the classical sense is that it lacks, on the whole, reasonable checkpoints along the way.
