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"The term metaphysics originally referred to the writings of Aristotle that came after his writings on physics. Traditionally, metaphysics refers to the branch of philosophy that attempts to understand the fundamental nature of all reality, whether visible or invisible. It seeks a description so basic, so essentially simple, so all-inclusive that it applies to everything, whether divine or human or anything else. It attempts to tell what anything must be like in order to be at all."

"Plato's ethics is inseparable from his epistemology. Epistemology is, broadly speaking, the study of what knowledge is and how one comes to have knowledge. Among the many topics included in epistemology are logic, belief, perception, language, science, and knowledge."



That's, in fact what's so special about them.
There is more that than, it was a Two-Element Metaphysics that runs through Plato's work, and that Aristotle did not quite grasp. Aristotle had a foot in two worlds.

Had it been developed, had what Plato saw been developed, a great many things would be different today.

You are a great deal smarter than you pretend to be, but you regard the crowd too much, and thus you are not entirely honest.