metaphysician
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- noun
- /ˌmɛtəfəˈzɪʃən/
- Formal
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metafísico
- For jurists, it is the background for human action; for scientists, a domain to be analyzed; and for metaphysicians, the object of contemplation.
So Martin Heidegger thinks that Hegel is a really important metaphysician.
- So Martin Heidegger thinks that Hegel is a really important metaphysician.
- But none of it possesses the kind of necessity that metaphysicians and moralists have been ascribing to it.
- Now, this is a somewhat different conception of being than would been proposed by metaphysicians in the past like say Aristotle or Thomas Aquinas.
- This was the ancient metaphysicians Thalace of Militis.
- I mean, since you've now adapted the, in this little bit of a conversation, adapted the metaphysician view of reality, which is the physics.
Examples
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Nietzsche is therefore the last metaphysician.
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So how does a metaphysician attempt to answer the very basic questions of his concern?
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To keep myself from going mad, I turned into a metaphysician.
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I thought he was some sort of metaphysician and philosopher?
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But that is still what metaphysicians of today rely on.
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Observing is an activity worthy of the metaphysician, who often acquires advanced degrees in it.
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Eminent moral theorist and metaphysician who ponders with acuity what it means to be good.
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The renowned metaphysician explained his views on the nature of reality during the lecture.
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As a dedicated metaphysician, she spent years studying the fundamental questions of existence.
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Many philosophers admire the work of the famous metaphysician known for his groundbreaking theories.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
metaphysician = metaphysic (semi-transparent) = metaphysic + ian
The base 'metaphysic' is clear, but the suffix '-ian' denoting a person specializing in the field may not be immediately obvious to all learners.
Etymology
Metaphysician comes from Greek parts meta- meaning 'beyond' and physika meaning 'things of nature', the same root as physics. So, a metaphysician is a thinker who studies what is beyond the physical world, like the basic nature of reality.