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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, Middle English metaphisik , methaphesik (late 14c.), "branch of speculation which deals with the first causes of things," from Medieval Latin metaphysica , neuter Medieval Greek (ta) metaphysika , from Greek ta meta ta physika "the (works) after ...
Wikipedia
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Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with the fundamental nature of being and the world. The term may also refer to: Metaphysical art , a style of painting created by Giorgio de Chirico Metaphysical poets , a type of poetry in 17th-century England ...
WordNet
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n. the philosophical study of being and knowing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A judge and landlord, he throve on amateur metaphysics and early anthropology, purveying monkey theories almost a century ahead of Darwin. ▪ But given, too, Prentice's age, much of the conversation centres on a raw, adolescent ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Metaphysics \Met`a*phys"ics\, n. [Gr. ? ? ? after those things which relate to external nature, after physics, fr. ? beyond, after + ? relating to external nature, natural, physical, fr. ? nature: cf. F. m['e]taphysique. See Physics . The term was ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context philosophy uncountable English) The branch of philosophy which studies fundamental principles intended to describe or explain all that is, and which are not themselves explained by anything more fundamental; the study of first principles; ...
Usage examples of metaphysics.
NNE cults and stelliform subcults Lenz reports as existing around belief systems about the metaphysics of the Concavity and annular fusion and B.
Menippea, where everything is permitted and nothing decided, dissolves the metaphysics of Dostoyevsky, whose creative thought is a struggle to reconcile four antinomic freedoms, two of which oppose the other two.
I so did not need another man tied to me by metaphysics that demanded a piece of my bed, or at least my body.
I think if you have personal contact with something besides leopards that your beast will go back to being just amorphous, more metaphysics than physical.
The god of Anglicanism had crept under the skin of things, and all the stimulatingly inhuman strangeness of Nature had become as flatly familiar as a page from a textbook of metaphysics or theology.
It is also a problem in metaphysics -- a problem, one might almost say, in theology.
In this condition of apprehensive sobriety we are able to see that the contents of literature, art, music -- even in some measure of divinity and school metaphysics -- are not sophistry and illusion, but simply those elements of experience which scientists chose to leave out of account, for the good reason that they had no intellectual methods for dealing with them.
The huge pyramids, with their triangular sides of elevation and square bases, represented their Metaphysics, founded upon the knowledge of Nature.
We have not reduced Masonry to a cold metaphysics that exiles everything belonging to the domain of the imagination.
Initiation was a school, in which were taught the truths of primitive revelation, the existence and attributes of one God, the immortality of the Soul, rewards and punishments in a future life, the phenomena of Nature, the arts, the sciences, morality, legislation, philosophy, and philanthropy, and what we now style psychology and metaphysics, with animal magnetism, and the other occult sciences.
Mysteries, in which were developed the great principles of physics and metaphysics as to the origin of the soul, its condition here below, its destination, and its future fate.
God, that have produced all the systems of philosophy, all metaphysics, and all theology, since the world began.
Thus, from every direction,--from metaphysics, aesthetics, and morality above all, we rise to the same Principle, the common centre, and ultimate foundation of all truth, all beauty, all good.
By its intimate resemblances to the judgment of the true and the beautiful, it shows us the secret affinities of morality, metaphysics, and aesthetics.
Philosophy directed by metaphysics ends in visionary extravagance, 693-m.