Metaphysics is any assertion of extra-historical abstract universal truth.

Evidence

As far as the book is concerned, metaphysics means only a specific philosophical formulation, that of speculative idealism, rather than any systematic formulation that is put forward as an extra-historical truth, as an abstract universal outside of time and space. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1553

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gramsci’s definition of metaphysics as the denial of historicity — directly load-bearing for how Islamophobia frameworks treat universalized claims about Muslim identity.
• XREF: connects to: Metaphysics studies individual world-genesis where ontology studies universal structures — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1434; Metaphysics explains why this concrete world exists, as history explains particulars to sociology.