Elias looked at his bookshelf. If metaphysics was the study of the "first principles" of things—the invisible scaffolding holding up the universe—then the scaffolding was rotting. "What do we do?" he asked.
Many assume that science has made metaphysics obsolete. After all, why speculate about the nature of reality when we can measure it? This is the stance of (the Vienna Circle, A.J. Ayer), which famously declared metaphysical statements to be "cognitively meaningless" because they cannot be verified empirically. Metafisica
"That's fine," Elias thought, and the thought echoed through every atom in existence. "I always suspected the office was too small anyway." Elias looked at his bookshelf