Definition of Metaphysics

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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

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
Michel de Montaigne

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
Maimonides

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
Maimonides

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William James

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.
Martin Heidegger

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.
John Polkinghorne

Metaphysics Translations

metaphysics in German is Metaphysik
metaphysics in Hungarian is metapszichika

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