Writing the Book of the World

In order to perfectly describe the world, it is not enough to speak truly. One must also use the right concepts - including the right logical concepts. One must use concepts that carve at the joints', that give the world's *structure*. There is an objectively correct way to "write the book of the world". Metaphysics, as traditionally conceived, is about the fundamental nature of reality; in the present terms, metaphysics is about the world's structure. Metametaphysics - inquiry into the status of metaphysical questions - turns on structure. The question of whether ontological, causal, or modal questions are "substantive" is in large part a question of whether the world has ontological, causal, and modal structure - whether quantifiers, causal relations, and modal operators carve at the joints.