Metaphysics has been a field of study on its
deathbed since Kant, its
few intellectual life - support systems having finally been unplugged by the very caretakers of the profession that gave it birth — philosophers of the positivist and linguistic schools.
«On his
deathbed in 1969, former President Dwight Eisenhower told a friend that, in his experience, scientists «were one of the
few groups in Washington who seemed to be there to help the country and not help themselves.»