ABSTRACT
The problem of Metaphysics is to ascertain what would be the general or formal character of such an experience, and how far the various provinces of our human experience and knowledge approximate to it. The knowledge Metaphysics can give metaphysicians of the ultimate nature of reality as it would be present in a complete experience, though imperfect, is final as far as it goes. The merits of the Humian solution of the problem will come before metaphysicians for consideration; the impossibility of assuming it without inquiry as a principle, may perhaps be brought home to the mind of the reader by a simple illustration. The data or material of reality, then, are facts of experience, and nothing but facts of experience. And experience, we have said, means for our purposes immediate feeling or apprehension. The data or material of reality, then, are facts of experience, and nothing but facts of experience.
