them. And this choosing can then, in the nature of the case, no longer be a matter of artistic preference. We cannot choose epistemologies as we choose hats. Such would be the case if it had been once for all established that the whole thing is but a matter of taste. But that is exactly what has not been established. That is exactly the point in dispute. In the second place, every system of philosophy has a theory of metaphysics. The term metaphysics is often used to define a rather narrow discipline