metaphysic
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- noun
- /ˌmɛtəˈfɪzɪk/
- Specialized
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metafísica
- The study of metaphysic explores questions about existence that are beyond the physical world.
- critique of metaphysic
- logic and metaphysic
- metaphysic of theology
So I'll talk about metaphysics, being and beings.
- So I'll talk about metaphysics, being and beings.
- Aristotle enunciates and defends law in the Metaphysics, and it's clear that he's attacking some people who he thinks accepts some contradictions.
- It is design itself because the truth of metaphysics dwells in this groundless ground.
- And concepts, Well, this is close to metaphysics, but it's not metaphysics per SE.
- So great example of this in the groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals.
- Aristotle used the idea of potentiality and its actualisation in works ranging from ethics, physics, metaphysics to the soul of the psyche.
Examples
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The first big treatise in metaphysics is Aristotle's Metaphysics.
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The Will is something totally present, and metaphysics is the doctrine of Being as presence.
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Look, this is not a seminar on metaphysics, son.
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No lectures on metaphysics tonight, huh?
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So I'll talk about metaphysics, being and beings.
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The philosophy of process is a venture in metaphysics, the general theory of reality.
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Let me turn next to a discussion of that history and its wider significance for metaphysics.
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I never did get a handle on pre-Socratic metaphysics.
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Taking care not to conflate religion with metaphysics, the comparison is striking.
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Prime matter, in Aristotelian metaphysics, is the matter underlying all individuated substantial forms.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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Study of what is real and what exists
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Metaphysic comes from Greek parts meta- 'beyond' and physis 'nature', which is also the root of physics. So metaphysic as a branch of philosophy studies what is 'beyond the physical', the most basic questions about existence and reality.