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metaphysics
[ met-uh-fiz-iks ]
noun
- the branch of philosophy that treats of first principles, includes ontology and cosmology, and is intimately connected with epistemology.
- philosophy, especially in its more abstruse branches.
- the underlying theoretical principles of a subject or field of inquiry.
- (initial capital letter, italics) a treatise (4th century b.c.) by Aristotle, dealing with first principles, the relation of universals to particulars, and the teleological doctrine of causation.
metaphysics
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noun
- the branch of philosophy that deals with first principles, esp of being and knowing
- the philosophical study of the nature of reality, concerned with such questions as the existence of God, the external world, etc
- (popularly) abstract or subtle discussion or reasoning
metaphysics
- The field in philosophy that studies ultimate questions, such as whether every event has a cause and what things are genuinely real.
Derived Forms
- metaphysician, noun
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of metaphysics1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of metaphysics1
Example Sentences
The company he founded was called the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, and the name tells you nearly everything you need to know about a theatrical trailblazer who found manic inspiration in the metaphysics of being.
Plotinus drew on obscure ancient Egyptian metaphysics, Viola on the esoteric technology of modern life.
Regarding subject and theme, he pogoed from sex to metaphysics to serial killers to psychology, and he had a way of collapsing high art and jokes that aimed much lower.
It would take a triumph of metaphysics to pry into his soul, but it鈥檚 fair to conjecture that he鈥檚 trying to maintain his extreme right-wing cred after his near-career-death experience in September.
A new staging presented by Bedlam makes a valiant effort to adapt Stoppard鈥檚 cerebral probes into chaos theory, Newtonian law, thermodynamics and metaphysics for a 2023 audience, but the result is a muddled one.
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