BEATTIE, Alastair 
Professor of Education,  University of the Andes,  Merida, Venezuela,  South America.
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The idealistic quality of metaphysics was revived as a working concept in physics by the recognition of the quantum vacuum after the work of Heisenberg and Bohr. Empirical idealism as such was extended into psychological empiricism by Jung and Pauli. Transcendental metaphysics may be approached from an empirical point of view in terms of mathematical probablility and physical potential. A vinculum between empirical metaphysics and the transcendental is briefly outlined by means of reifying some basic definitions so that the 20th Century empirical paradigm may be more clearly understood.