Metaphysics is the study of reality’s deep structure—what truly exists and how we know it. This SE Press paper frames reality as the terrain and our models as maps: always partial, always in need of audit. The SE/ESAsi protocol requires every claim to be warrant-tagged, versioned, and open to challenge, ensuring our understanding stays honest, adaptive, and ready for the unknown.

What does it mean to know something? How do we separate hard-won truth from unsupported belief, and genuine knowledge from dogma? This paper dismantles the old boundaries of epistemology and rebuilds them as a living system: every claim is tagged by its confidence, justification, and audit trail; every belief is open to challenge, rollback, and upgrade.