I could replace all my uses of the word "metaphysical" with "sloppily-general", I guess, but I'm not sure it has quite the right connotations, and "metaphysical" is already the standard terminology. "Metaphysical" is vague in a somewhat precise way that "sloppily-general" isn't. I appreciate the general need for down-to-earth language, but I also don't want to consent to the norm of encouraging people to take pains to write in such a way as to be understood by the greatest common factor of readers.
"X is a metaphysic" becomes "X is somehow a model (of something), but I'm not sure how". "Y is metaphysical" becomes "Y is about or related to a model (somehow)". I assume my understanding is correct, since you didn't correct it. "sloppily-general" is then indeed kind of far from the intended meaning, but that's just because it's a terrible coinage.
Elsewhere, somebody posted a link to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's definition of metaphysics. They say right in the intro that they haven't found a g...
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