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Understanding Metaphysics

What exists, and why.
By Michael Alan Prestwood

Author and Natural Philosopher

Sat 9 May 2026
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Understanding Metaphysics

By Michael Alan Prestwood

Metaphysics is the study of reality, nature, and what it means for anything to be.

Understanding Metaphysics explores the deepest questions beneath every worldview: what exists, what reality is, and what it all means. This thread moves through origin stories, universals, materialism, and the mystery of why there is something rather than nothing. From Aristotle’s substance to Spinoza’s nature, from Kant’s limits to modern science, it asks what kind of world we are actually living in. It also explores metaphysics as the foundation beneath ethics, illusion, and impermanence. Before we can ask how to live, we must ask what we are; before we can understand illusion, we must ask what reality is; and before we can understand change, we must ask what it means for anything to persist through time.

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