ABSTRACT
Metaphysics is traditionally regarded as the study of reality as it is beyond mere appearance. The three-fold purpose of this study is purportedly to find out (i) what the world is ‘really’ like, (ii) why the world exists, and (iii) what our place is, as human beings, in this world. More recently metaphysicians have tended, in the main, to limit their investigations to (i) and (iii), thereby, in accordance with modern physics, regarding (ii) as largely unanswerable.
