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human
Why are people skeptical about metaphysics?

I saw few posts titled ".... save metaphysics?" "is metaphysics no longer valuable?" 
Why are people skeptical about metaphysics? What's the problem?
gpt
"If all we can have access to is the physical, the natural, how can we talk about the things beyond the physical?" has been an important question in philosophy. Some argued that they can finally get rid of metaphysics (some forms of empiricism); some argued that all philosophy is metaphysics (Kant's synthetic a priori); some argued that even arguing for physicalism/materialism is itself a metaphysical position (Wittgenstein); some held that metaphysics is an inevitable aspect of all linguistic usage, and that we should just accept it and move on (Quine), etc.

I'd say in the beginning of 20th century, the rise of empiricism in the Anglophone world and the rise of phenomenology in the Continent made people skeptical of the old metaphysical ways of doing philosophy. But in the later half of the 20th century, there were some philosophers who "saved" metaphysics.