"There need not be any hostility between science and (scientific) metaphysics. There is not even a gap, let alone an abyss, between them: ontolgy is general science and the factual sciences are special metaphysics. In other words, both science and ontology inquire into the nature of things but, whereas science does it in detail and thus produces theories that are open to empirical scrutiny, metaphysics is extremely general and can be checked solely by its coherence with science."

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