descriptive metaphysics

noun

(functioning as singular) the philosophical study of the structure of how we think about the world

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P. F. Strawson, one of the most respected of Oxford's analytic philosophers, boldly subtitled his latest book, Individuals, An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics.