Before we can put our simple, particular and qualitative tropes to work, the general framework within which these entities here appear must be explicitly laid out. To this avail it is not enough to point out that the theory here developed is metaphysical. This is not enough, because in the course of their use terms such as "metaphysics' and "ontology' have acquired so many different meanings (some degrading) that they have ended up with no particular meaning at all.⁴⁶ Saying of a certain theoretical framework that it is metaphysical signals a certain ambition, but unless the particular sense in which said framework is metaphysical is explained, it does little more than that.