Is this the most fundamental metaphysical question?
<p>Metaphysics has been called rubbish since at least the early 20th century, when famous mathematical physicist and logical positivist philosopher Rudolph Carnap said it was a waste of time. Later empiricist Willard Van Ormand Quine was less dismissive. Yet, the best and brightest of contemporary expressivist philosophers of physics tend to agree with Carnap.</p>
<p>So why bother with metaphysical questions at all? The best and most common response is that physicists — the new arbiters of reality — often develop metaphysical theories and posits. David Wheeler did it (participatory cosmology). John Barrow and Frank Tipler did it (the anthropic cosmological principle.)</p>
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