This is the first version of what I want to submit to the call of Open Philosophy: Towards an indexical paradoxico-metaphysics 1. Paradoxico-Metaphysics Jon Cogburn introduces the idea of a paradoxico-metaphysics as follows: Metaphysics aims to give a maximally general account of what reality is like such that we encounter the phenomena that we do. But what if we encounter phenomena […] that seem to entail that metaphysics is impossible? Then the task of metaphysics is to give a maximally general account of what reality is like such that metaphysics is impossible. If the project sounds metaphysical, that is because it is.1 The impossibility of metaphysics requires an explanation and if any such explanation cannot stop short of making metaphysical assumptions or providing metaphysical arguments, paradox looms in the horizon. If we bite the bullet, we engage in paradoxico-metaphysics, the endeavor to provide a metaphysical explanation for the impossibility of metaphysics. That