f philosophy and addresses issues of ultimate reality. Metaphysics is concerned with what really exists and what it is that makes reality possible. The exact nature of metaphysics has long been argued, which brings into question its validity and usefulness. Metaphysics asks the big questions, the questions that we may want answered but that at some point we may have to admit can never be answered. Metaphysics is in some sense an attempt to know the unknowable. Philosophers have asked how to tell that which is most real so that all else rests on that reality, and second what is it that is most real so that it cannot be created or destroyed, usually identified as God:
Metaphysics is the attempt to say what reality is. . . When we look back to the very beginnings of philosophy and metaphysics, when people first made the attempt to formulate their view of the world in terms of what was most real and w
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