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• Philosophy is often divided into five major branches: logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and aesthetics.From the entry philosophy
• Professor Jones is an eminent metaphysician; she has produced more than one hundred refereed publications concerning metaphysics.From the entry metaphysician
• Some thinkers take the view that, beginning with the work of Descartes, epistemology began to replace metaphysics as the most important area of philosophy.From the entry epistemology
• The agnostic is open towards atheism and metaphysics. The anti-agnostic selects only one option: either atheism or metaphysics, and is not agnostic about that!From the entry anti-agnostic
• The agnostic is open towards atheism and metaphysics. The antiagnostic selects only one option: either atheism or metaphysics, and is not agnostic about that!From the entry antiagnostic
• We too have mastered a few things: ersatzes, for instance, and the metaphysics of fictionalism—”2016 [c. 1927], Joanne Turnbull, The Return of Munchausen, New York: New York Review of Books, translation of Возвращение Мюнхгаузена by…. From the entry ersatz
• In brief, Daoism provides a useful counterweight to Western logocentrism, phallocentrism, and the metaphysics of presence.2014, James J.Y. Liu, Language-Paradox-Poetics: A Chinese Perspective, page 21. From the entry vaginocentrism
• Always working within metaphysics, Derrida is nonetheless committed to think the impossible, the extrametaphysical thought.2014, Guy Collins, Faithful Doubt: The Wisdom of Uncertainty. From the entry extrametaphysical
• Metaphysics stagnates in scienceless (or uncritical) cultures; it is progressive in scientific ones.2012, Joseph Agassi, Science in Flux. From the entry doctrine
• He was also considered the first ideologue, since he applied this word as a substitute for metaphysics.2005, Rodney P. Carlisle, editor, Encyclopedia of Politics: The Left and the Right, page 229. From the entry ideologue
• Reality would be left to metaphysics and to antiquated French physiologists.2002, Edmund Jephcott, “[Notes] Notes and Sketches”, in Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, translated by Edmund Jephcott, edited by…. From the entry mortificate
• Nonsense statements such as these are known as amphigory and are characteristic of much occult metaphysics.1990, Andrew Neher, chapter 7, in The Psychology of Transcendence, New York: Dover, page 284. From the entry amphigory
• All of metaphysics is ultimately aimed at mediating between immortal PH and mortal PX.1983, Manfred Faust, Roland Harweg, Werner Lehfeldt, Götz Wienold, editors, Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und…. From the entry symphoric
• They are the questions of methodology, of metaphysics, and of kalology.1950, William Pepperell Montague, Great visions of philosophy. From the entry kalology
• 'I told you, Winston,' he said, 'that metaphysics is not your strong point.1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC…. From the entry strong point
• The voodoos and medicine men and the devil-devil doctors were the fathers of metaphysics.1913 August, Jack London, John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. From the entry incantation
• Then naturalistic metametaphysics, we hold, should be based on naturalistic metaphysics, which should in turn be based on science.2007, James Ladyman, Don Ross, David Spurrett, John Collier, Every Thing Must Go. From the entry metametaphysics
• Our view relies on a plenitudinous metaphysics to which we are antecedently sympathetic, and adds to it one bold hypothesis.2007 July 14, John Hawthorne, Andrew McGonigal, “The many minds account of vagueness”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 138, number 3, →DOI. From the entry plenitudinous
• They wished to demask hidden metaphysics, to demask the false pretenses of sentences purportively descriptive but de facto metaphysical or evaluative.1968, Gerard Radnitzky · · Snippet view, Contemporary Schools of Metascience, page 114. From the entry pretense
• Whitehead devised such a conception, which to my mind definitely supersedes the panpsychisms of the history of metaphysics.1961, Victor Lowe, “The Approach to Metaphysics”, in Ivor Leclerc, editor, The Relevance of Whitehead, Taylor & Francis (Routledge)…. From the entry panpsychism
• In the latter case we get a very ostrichy metaphysics: an attempt to solve a problem by denying its existence.1923, A. R. Wadia, “Pragmatic Idealism”, in Contemporary Indian Philosophy, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, […], published 1958, page 633. From the entry ostrichy
• Once such group's members subscribe to a metaphysics that considers fictional worlds fully real, or that regards what most view as reality as another fiction.2018, Hugh Urban, Greg Johnson, Irreverence and the Sacred: Critical Studies in the History of Religions. From the entry fictionkin
• The jargon is of course of medieval origin, but the term ‘haecceitism’ was introduced into contemporary discussions of modal metaphysics by David Kaplan.2012, Robert Stalnaker, Mere Possibilities: Metaphysical Foundations of Modal Semantics, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press…. From the entry haecceitism
• Despite his dislike of metaphysics and his radical 'humanization' and historicization of knowledge, Labriola did not advance any theory of the 'demise of philosophy'.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford…. From the entry historicization
• This ideology, it need hardly be said, would be that of empiriomonism, as the most radical thought-form eschewing the traditional fetishes of metaphysics.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford…. From the entry empiriomonism
• And there exists a Quixotic philosophy and even a Quixotic metaphysics, and also a Quixotic logic and a Quixotic sense of religion.1972, Miguel de Unamuno, translated by Anthony Kerrigan, Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno: The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations…. From the entry quixotic
• When Aristotle says that first philosophy is the science of being qua being, he gives metaphysics the task of being a science of the whole.1958, Eugen Biser, Philosophy Today Summer 1958: Volume 2, Issue 2, Philosophy Documentation Center, page 80. From the entry ultradimensional
• We listen to a snatchy talk on one thing and then another, and abstruse questions that are like the Scotchman's definition of metaphysics.1902, Amanda Minnie Douglas, A Sherburne quest, page 332. From the entry snatchy
• An experimental metaphysics, rather than preformatting the world, encourages the untidy proliferation of as many objects and actors as the universe (or, better, pluriverse) can muster.2013, Adam S. Miller, Speculative Grace: Bruno Latour and Object-Oriented Theology, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry pluriverse
• The empirical approach is the only valid way of acquiring knowledge, and this becomes evident as soon as we free ourselves from the thraldom of a false metaphysics.2007, Charles Taylor, “What is Secularity?”, in Kevin [Jon] Vanhoozer, Martin Warner, editors, Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy and…. From the entry only game in town
• If the aim of metaphysics is merely to criticize and to tear down, once every theory has been criticized and torn down, what is there left to do?1999, Jorge J. E. Gracia, Metaphysics and Its Task, page 120. From the entry tear down
• However, there can be difficulties, indeed megatragedies, when an ethic is made into metaphysics and must assume the burden of answering the foundational questions of being and meaning.1994, George F. McLean, Tradition, Harmony, and Transcendence, page 87. From the entry megatragedy

Meaning of metaphysics

1. noun 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; the study of being insofar as it is being (Latin: ens in quantum ens).
2. noun The view or theory of a particular philosopher or school of thinkers concerning the first principles which describe or explain all that is.
3. noun The metalogic of physics; the logical framework of physics.

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How do you use metaphysics in a sentence?

Metaphysics is used as a noun. For example: “Philosophers sometimes say that metaphysics is the study of the ultimate nature of the universe.”

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“The metaphysics of global power has changed.”

What does metaphysics mean?

Metaphysics means 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; the study of being insofar as it is being (Latin: ens in quantum ens).