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register to post a comment    1. CommentedJeremy Horne
Similar to Bell's "End of Ideology", we have the demise of
absolutism and the search for "The Truth" via metaphysics. Those
well read have moved past this debate and a serious
consideration of what is real. Of course, if we are to take the
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy seriously, we seem to know
more about what metaphysics is not than what it is.      What is
missing in Zabala's essay is the contradistinction to "The
Truth" [I take the liberty of capitalize the word, a proper noun
designating a particular thing]: truth. There is still the quest
for what is true and real (as opposed to what is fantasy, or
"false") in the same manner scientists search for their truths,
but there is a replacement mecha