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>Please look up already what the word metaphysics means. Only a core part of it can be proven beyond reasonable doubt, the rest is at best educated guesswork. By definition metaphysics can't be "solved". Figuring out that core part is vital, that's the basis, but insufficient in itself. Well at leas...

All my answers can be "proven" beyond a reasonable doubt, including what that means and why each point is necessarily true, all the way to the bottom.

>So I think we can agree then that you are simply misusing the word 'metaphysics', you are just talking about the core part of it, that can be posited beyond reasonable doubt. As I've shown, that doesn't give a satisfying answer (satisfying guess) to several big questions. I can answer every metaphy...

>Of course we can't physically 'explore' the possibilities we can't explore. We can merely come up with guesses, and debate which guess is the simplest / most likely. But it can't be proven or disproven. (That's why metaphysics can't be fully solved.) The answer to metaphysics is the same as the ans...

>What if there is no inside and outside, no "bubble"? Solipsism is an untestable proposition, as are all that incorporate the transcendent. It is indistinguishable from fiction. So long as we appear to a) exist independently and b) not share our physical perspective, the closest we can come to Actua...

>I think it is interesting that you are using the words "empirical phenomenon" is a way that many others are using it on this forum. You seem to contrast it with "subjective" things like desire, opinion and such. To me those last things are also empirical. I suppose I should explain that I don't bel...

>For me, philosophy/metaphysics/ontology is analysis, logical analysis. One takes an ordinary object apart into its constituent ontological parts. One ends up with a collection of abstractions. Bare particulars, universals, various nexus, quantifiers, sets, etc.. What are these abstractions? Are the...

An actual boundary isn't necessary, and we can extrapolate the possible parameters of other universes from the parameters of the one we see. The fine-tuning problem is that only an incomprehensibly small set of parameters allow for life in the first place, which our universe happens to have. If we d...

I mean that the meaning of transcendence is that which is beyond us. Beyond sensation or logical necessity. If there's anything like another universe, we cannot even formulate the slightest similarity to what that would be in our minds or words. A multiverse is an incoherent idea entirely. For our ...

Do you mean that there can't be a multiverse? The parameters of our one universe are so unfathomably improbable, that positing nothing beyond it makes solving metaphysics pretty much impossible. >I mean that the meaning of transcendence is that which is beyond us. Beyond sensation or logical necessi...

Nay, not gone at all, simply put in it's proper place. All the "spiritual" side of things - desires, opinions, prorities, are equally as real as empirical phenomenon but cannot me measured directly. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p7hKimR4_lJS8cRWNUaEVgT0Dig9QZV1UWy_X2Kbneo/edit?usp=drivesdk...

I'm not sure how to interpret "must be right". I believe there is one best understanding of metaphysics that is inherently better by any meaningful measure and that it's been represented in many various ways over time, all of which are compatible and necessarily true. To wit: https://docs.google.com...

Nope, Plato was an early and unsuccessful attempt at understanding. The litmus test is which idea is most a) compatible with the evidence b) useful. There is no evidence of universal perfect, unchangeable things, but i think contingent things proves itself.

Things would be the same except that metaphysics would not exist. It's a human concept and cannot be distinguished from it's uses.

To me there is nothing to be solved here. What do you see as needed being, or even being able to be, solved here? Solved doesn't only mean addressing a problem. Sometimes the full and true answer to a question is: That question isn't meaningful because x. Sometimes: It is contingent upon <external ...