The Nature of Reality I. Metaphysics is the study of topics that are considered after or beyond questions dealing with physical issues. Since what it means for something to be or to be real is an issue beyond what is physically accessible, ontological questions are metaphysical. Mythos , on the other hand, attempts to explain the natural world ultimately by appealing to supernatural or divine forces. For the mythic mind, the act of recounting the myth or casting a spell reinvokes what it means to say that something exists in the first place.
Myth identifies things as real without attempting to justify such identifications.
Ultimately, there is no rationale or justification for myth because it is through myth that reason itself is identified. Apart from such a revelation, it makes no sense to try to talk about things. To such objections metaphysicians often reply that the attempt to understand the nature of reality is not concerned with being true as much as with being helpful in making sense of life. Life is a physico-chemical process and mind and thought are only electrochemical activities of the brain. Intelligence is the evolutionary result of chance events in the development of the universe.