Kant said Hume had made him wake up from a sleeping dogmatism, the traditional metaphysics.

Aristotle's Metaphysics was divided into three parts, which are now regarded as the proper branches of traditional Western metaphysics:

Above all, Isaac Luria taught new and radical doctrines of the primordial process of creation, which became accepted as the complete structure of traditional Jewish metaphysics.

Both were strong critics of traditional metaphysics, a branch of philosophy which explored the basis and perception of reality.

Despite the name, these academic philosophical discussion groups pursued critical thinking of a pragmatist and positivist nature and rejected traditional European metaphysics.

Transcendental philosophy is, consequently, also the critics of traditional metaphysics.

Kabbalah gives the complete structure of traditional Jewish metaphysics, using subtle categorisations and metaphors.

Using the Inertia Law as example, he explains how a heedless adherence to it leads to inherent contradictions when lacking a traditional metaphysics.

He was a defender of traditional metaphysics (as opposed to post-modern ethics) and developed what may be termed an 'analytical idealism'.

This objection manifests the most important difference between traditional philosophical metaphysics and Latour's nuance: for Latour, there is no "basic structure of reality" or a single, self-consistent world.