Leaving aside the fact that, by default, I don't consider "totally" to be content-free (I'm aware a lot of people use it that way, but I still often need to consciously discard the word when I encounter it), that still seems like at best it only works when used as a modifier. It doesn't help if somebody is actually talking about metaphysics. I'll keep it in mind as a backup option, though; "if I can't process that sentence when I include all the words they said, and one of them is 'metaphysical', what happens if I drop that word?"