"What about 'metaphysics' Master, is not that a cramped word?"
"Certainly. It is the weapon that should cover one's indecisiveness."
"I am not sure that I understand."
"Is it not clear that the word is admirably suited to indicate something utterly vague? It has the comfortable ring of physics, meaning laboratories, calculators, dissecting tables, energy units, balances, yet, it points to a thing, not precisely physical. It is far easier to divide Reality in a non-physical part and a physical part. In that way, one cannot speak about things he is not thinking about. Words like metaphysics, perception, psychosomatic and so on, make it possible to chatter about Mind, 'as if' it was physics BUT alive. In this way too, one can go and explain the most intricate processes in a cell, without touching upon Mind, ideation, the non-physicum that causes such processes. One can confuse everything in that way, yet be taken seriously as expert scientist. It was perhaps unavoidable in Aristotle's time, some 2500 years ago, we, today, should keep the two parts of Reality well separated, not as likes and likes, but as incommensurates."