Much recent Jewish theology makes few if any metaphysical claims and is thus compatible with atheism on an ontological level.

This "predicate theology", while continuing to use theistic language, again makes few metaphysical claims that non-believers would find objectionable.

He considered that there was no objective way to define the requirements of justice and that invocations of justice cloaked purely subjective preferences or unacceptable metaphysical claims.

My concern here is with the mythology that has accompanied these advances; the metaphysical claims implicit - and not infrequently explicit - in the way they have been described.

The idea that reality and function are in fact, one unit, is a metaphysical claim that is key to Confucianism.

The scientists who make sweeping metaphysical claims may represent a vocal minority.

If the compatibilist says "I may visit tomorrow, or I may not", he is not making a metaphysical claim that there are multiple possible futures.

It does not seem to have occurred to them that one large reason for this disappearance is the great likelihood that the metaphysical claims of religion are false.

This is a claim about what we can or do know, not a metaphysical claim as to the nature of the world.

This means that in making public claims one must refrain from religious or otherwise controversial metaphysical claims that cannot, in principle, be equally endorsed by reasonable persons.