In the same year there appeared in Danzig an anonymous satire, Pope a Metaphysician (Pope ein Metaphysiker), the authorship of which soon transpired.
In estimating Buchner's philosophy it must be remembered that he was primarily a physiologist, not a metaphysician.
Suarez is probably more important, however, as a philosophical jurist than as a theologian or metaphysician.
This work made the "Cornish metaphysician," as he was called, widely known, and for some time it held a high place in the judgment of the religious world as a conclusive argument on its subject.
But Gilbert de la Porree, according to Haureau, is the most eminent logician of the Realistic school in the 12th century and the most profound metaphysician of either school.