Denying metaphysics in favor of science is itself a metaphysical position

Evidence

The Distinction imposed on moral philosophy was, in one important sense, inevitable because this “philosophy cannot admit the existence of true metaphysics without destroying itself.” Of course the denial of metaphysics in the name of science, or of any such entity as can determine the truth of matter, is itself a type of metaphysics, but Guénon choses for it the less-charitable term “superstition.” — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 294

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The point that scientific denials of metaphysics are themselves metaphysical commitments — and that philosophy must reject metaphysics to preserve itself — is dense and worth sitting with.
• XREF: connects to: Science cannot eliminate potentiality and must actually presuppose it — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 613; Ontology specifies structures of being while metaphysics questions the existence of the existent — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 799; Scientific neutrality is itself metaphysical and masks domination — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 43 (+9 more)