If- the expedition proceeds far enough- either deep to the very small, or deep to the outermost reaches of the cosmos- if seems we reach the end of our empirical reach... and the end of the empirical reach always gives birth to metaphysics... and metaphysics, as an intellectual pursuit, has engaged many many world-class minds over the centuries... and so, what do we know?
we know that metaphysics can be brilliant and insightful- and wrong... and we know it happens that reason works wonderfully if combined with good empirical method - but if left to itself, reason brilliantly goes wrong, as the world is just too hard for us.
This is the end of metaphysics. It may continue to be pursued, but it is sterile and wrong- (though as history it is immensely educational) - as a contemporary pursuit it is an utter dead end. So the expedition for the child ends- with questions, and a kind of bafflement. A sad end then, the end of metaphysics.
kalinzsky
