The Four Categories of Ìwà Metaphysics and the Nature of Entities

Since the alternative system of logic upon which Ìwà metaphysics thrives has been revised away from Chimakonam’s version in the last chapter, the present chapter commences with one of the four categories of the African conception of reality from the perspective of Ìwà with my version of Ezumezu logic fortifying its thought, theory and method. Herein, the nature of entities as beings from the animate to that which appears to humans as inanimate are thoroughly discussed. Hence, this chapter shows how entitites interact from the simplest level to the complex and to the supernatural. This is possible because in Ìwà metaphysics, there is a hierarchy of entities which is more robust and scientifically-informed when compared with the dominant order of beings beginning with God down to plants and animals, in previous metaphysical schemes.