To us, things are such that they suggest they are more than they are to us. This suggested “more” is the subject of metaphysics.

We cannot believe a chair is essentially the phenomena by which we know it, yet we know the chair by way of its phenomena.

We cannot take a memory as something in the present. It exists in a moment in the past.

And nobody loves a person as given by experience, we love the person beyond the experience.

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We are constantly thinking in metaphysical terms, but we cannot believe metaphysics can be this simple, so we invent ghosts.

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Much of skepticism is just the selective severing of phenomena from metaphysical being.