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jamest wrote:

Thomas Eshuis wrote:Does metaphysics have value?

Of course metaphysics has value. That's why we're all blowing each other up with explosives, etc..

It is interesting to note that nobody was blowing each other up over the effort to prove Fermat's Last Theorem or... well, any mathematical proofs or conjectures, ever. The only argument that is of any worth is one of valid reasoning from justified premises.

I'd suggest that the need to resort to explosives is a good indication that the metaphysics doesn't have value.