Metaphysical poets still young, introducing into it a string of Metaphysical conceits in the lines beginning “Most souls, ‘tis true, but peep out once an age” which in part echo a passage from Donne's “Second Anniversary”. By the time Pope wrote this, the vogue for the Metaphysical style was over and a new orthodoxy had taken its place, of which the rewriting of Donne's satires was one expression. Nevertheless, Johnson's dismissal of the ‘school’ was still in the future and at the start of the 18th century allusions to their work struck an answering chord in readers. During the course of the
Metaphysical naturalism Internet Infidels co-founder Jeffery Jay Lowder argues against what he calls "the argument from bias", that "a priori," the supernatural is merely ruled out due to an unexamined stipulation. Lowder believes "there are good empirical reasons for believing that metaphysical naturalism is true, and therefore a denial of the supernatural need not be based upon an "a priori" assumption". Richard Carrier argues in "Sense and Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism" that Metaphysical Naturalism is true. Topics covered include metaphilosophy, semantics, epistemology, the nature and origin of the universe (including a proposal that spacetime may be the ground