Definition of Metaphysics
Metaphysics
The science of real as distinguished from phenomenal being; ontology; also, the science of being, with reference to its abstract and universal conditions, as distinguished from the science of determined or concrete being; the science of the conceptions and relations which are necessarily implied as true of every kind of being; phylosophy in general; first principles, or the science of first principles.
Hence: The scientific knowledge of mental phenomena; mental philosophy; psychology.
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Metaphysics Quotations
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William James
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
Wallace Stevens
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
Michel de Montaigne
So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.
John Polkinghorne
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
Huston Smith
The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.
Erwin Schrodinger
Metaphysics Translations
metaphysics in German is Metaphysik
metaphysics in Hungarian is metapszichika
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