On the contrary, the concept that the universe is the product of a rational mind provides a far better metaphysical basis for scientific rationality than the competing concept that everything in the universe (including our minds) is ultimately based in the mindless movements of matter. (firstthings.com)
Commenting on Frankenthaler's gesturalism in his review of her Whitney Museum retrospective, Rosenberg accused her of having never grasped «the moral and metaphysical basis of action painting,» adding that «her compositions fail to develop resistances against which a creative act can take place.» (jwa.org)
7Whitehead's position could be defended on other grounds as well: e.g., it gives us a single type of experience for all existing things; it provides a single metaphysical basis for the natural and social sciences; it stresses the difference between the becoming of a not - yet - existing occasion and the relations between existing things. (religion-online.org)