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antimetaphysics

antimetaphysics noun: the belief that spiritual and religious metaphysics is a delusion and pursuing it impedes the advancement of knowledge.

Noun

antimetaphysics (uncountable)

  1. The belief that spiritual and religious metaphysics is a delusion and pursuing it impedes the advancement of knowledge.
    • Antimetaphysics is basically a Machian heritage.1999, Maria Carla Galavotti, Alessandro Pagnini, Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation, →ISBN
    • Almost nothing is more striking than the antimetaphysics imputed to Wittgenstein by those interpreters who, indeed, see him as so clearly antimetaphysical.2003, Anat Biletzki, (Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein, →ISBN

Forms of antimetaphysics

alternative formanti-metaphysics

Origin of antimetaphysics

From anti- + metaphysics.

Questions about antimetaphysics

What does antimetaphysics mean?
Antimetaphysics means the belief that spiritual and religious metaphysics is a delusion and pursuing it impedes the advancement of knowledge.
What part of speech is antimetaphysics?
Antimetaphysics is a noun.

Words near antimetaphysics in the dictionary

  1. antimetaphysicalism
  2. antimetaphysicalist
  3. antimetaphysicalists
  4. antimetaphysicality
  5. antimetaphysically
  6. antimetaphysics
  7. antimetastasis
  8. antimetastatic
  9. antimetathesis
  10. antimeter
  11. antimeters

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