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pseudometaphysics

pseudometaphysics noun: a hypothesized explanation of the nature of reality that lacks the rigor of true metaphysics, especially one that involves a supersensual realm or phenomena which transcend the physical world.

Noun

pseudometaphysics (uncountable)

  1. A hypothesized explanation of the nature of reality that lacks the rigor of true metaphysics, especially one that involves a supersensual realm or phenomena which transcend the physical world.
    • Finally, with good reason, this psychology aims to be a psychology of a purely empiriological type. It is pervaded and overwhelmed on every side, however, by a pseudometaphysics of the most vulgar character, which Freud is all the less anxious to dispense with as he imagines he has no philosophy or...1964, Cross Currents of Psychiatry and Catholic Morality, page 351
    • Without the explanatory dimension, insights into concrete data regarding reality, the ethical, human life and relationships run the risk of shading off into a pseudometaphysics that is in fact mythical.2008, Andrew Beards, Method in Metaphysics: Lonergan and the Future of Analytical Philosophy, →ISBN

Examples of pseudometaphysics in a sentence

  • I say pseudometaphysics of the most vulgar type, because it combines all the prejudices of deterministic, mechanistic scientism with all the prejudices of irrationalism.1964, Cross Currents of Psychiatry and Catholic Morality, page 351:
  • Mill's attempt to answer this pseudometaphysical question is so admirable that it almost raises pseudometaphysics to the rank of a science.2016, R. G. Collingwood, An Essay on Metaphysics, →ISBN:

Origin of pseudometaphysics

From pseudo- + metaphysics.

Questions about pseudometaphysics

What does pseudometaphysics mean?
Pseudometaphysics means a hypothesized explanation of the nature of reality that lacks the rigor of true metaphysics, especially one that involves a supersensual realm or phenomena which transcend the physical world.
How do you use pseudometaphysics in a sentence?
I say pseudometaphysics of the most vulgar type, because it combines all the prejudices of deterministic, mechanistic scientism with all the prejudices of irrationalism.
What part of speech is pseudometaphysics?
Pseudometaphysics is a noun.

Words near pseudometaphysics in the dictionary

  1. pseudometaloph
  2. pseudometalophs
  3. pseudometameric
  4. pseudometamerism
  5. pseudometaphysical
  6. pseudometaphysics
  7. pseudometastatic
  8. pseudometeorite
  9. pseudometeorites
  10. pseudometric
  11. pseudometrics

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