Ontology pt. 1 (definition(s); non-reductionistic; priority)

All these thoughts are a definite "work in progress"!! (This video was rough! Jeez!) http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/metaphysics/ My first approximation at a "definition" for metaphysics: For any state of affairs, ontology is the study state of affairs actual or states of affairs non-actual. Not the study of ideas, concepts, or language only or primarily! What I do in this series will not be reductionist in nature. States of affairs can be anything at all (e.g. God, existence, nothing, unicorns, tables, persons, freewill, concepts, space-time, space and time, art, language, bats, literature, color) But philosophers/metaphysicians study the basic parts of all these things. Everyone does metaphysics...but the question is, how good are you going to do metaphysics -- does your metaphysic have more true propositions about them? Every other study rests upon and assumes certain metaphysical (and epistemological!) truth-claims.