​What is Metaphysics and what does this branch of Philosophy

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What is Metaphysics and what does this branch of Philosophy cover? Explain its significance to modern studies. Please keep your answer at 50 words

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Metaphysics is defined as the Metaphysics is the philosophical investigation of the
ultimate nature of reality. Metaphysics is concerned, first and foremost, with the nature of reality.
But it is not by any means the only subject with this concern. Physics deals with the nature of
physical reality, epistemology with the nature of knowledge, and aesthetics with the nature of
beauty. It is distinguished, in part, from physics and other branches of science by the a priori
character of its methods. (Kripke, Saul 1972).
The claims of science rest on observation; the claims of metaphysics do not, except
perhaps incidentally. Metaphysics is also distinguished from other branches of philosophy, not
by the aperiodicity of its methods but by the generality of its concerns. Other branches...


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