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Is a chair really a chair? (Metaphysics)

Is a TV really a TV, is a hat really a hat, etc.

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Metaphysics is an outmoded path to greater knowledge of what reality is and how to best perceive it.

Deeper and more substantive understanding is to be gained through things like theoretical particle physics. There, our perceptions are challenged in a much more organized way.

Philosophy and modern science took separate paths centuries ago. And are today, useful in completely distinct ways. Whereas philosophy remains as a valid path to understanding ourselves, modern science has become a more powerful tool to understand reality.

IMO your question, should not be addressed through metaphysics.

Hey but that's just me. I suppose that's it theoretically possible that I'm mistaken. :)

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Philosophy and modern science took separate paths centuries ago. And are today, useful in completely distinct ways. Whereas philosophy remains as a valid path to understanding ourselves, modern science has become a more powerful tool to understand reality

You have these two backwards. By apply philosophy to reality one understands why science is being used and controlled by large corporations, it's called greed. Cures for diseases are being hindered for the sake of profits. Shortages of drugs are intentional as it makes medicine worth more. Greed is the reality and science often works to promote it.

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The Modern Science (my redundancy, since there is only Modern Science) as we know it today, do not know the reality as it is. It is very presumptuous of man to believe that you know more of reality than an amoeba.We call the knowledge that we can do things. A primitive man not theoretically understood the fire, combustion and still could produce a flame using dry twigs and straw. Today, though we can do many things, we know very little, or even nothing.

In short, talking about knowledge means talking of theoretical knowledge. But if the validity of scientific knowledge is given and established according to criteria of their applicability, usefulness (utilitarianism), then knowledge is actually practical and not theoretical. And so it is not "knowledge", but only an "experience". Experience means here: "know-how".

Sorry for my English. I am Brazilian and I used Google Translate.

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