 Furthermore, the direction of the vast growing empirical data needs to be reckoned with, which makes early oracular pronouncements from the armchair seem quaint. Linguistically-guided metaphysicians working at the crossroads of philosophy of language, logic, and metaphysics, need not merely follow the lead of linguists and semanticists, but can, and should, play a role in this work, as they come at this topic with different concerns and different skill-sets which matter. The considerations in this last section represent a tentative reappraisal of the value of continuing to practice a certain methodological stance in the light of recent developments. It could very well be that new data, and new theories could show how the distinction between mass and count actually is as important as many have thought, perhaps by resurrecting itself in a new guise, such as the distinction between +COUNT and -COUNT. Furthermore, we can never be sure what new discoveries will be made in fundamental physics which could suddenly make us re-evaluate, revise, abandon, or double-down on the picture we have of matter, ordinary objects, and their relations.