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metaphysics

/met-uh-fiz-iks/US // ˌmɛt əˈfɪz ɪks //UK // (ˌmɛtəˈfɪzɪks) //

形而上学,形态学,实质性,实质性的

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the branch of philosophy that treats of first principles, includes ontology and cosmology, and is intimately connected with epistemology.
    • : philosophy, especially in its more abstruse branches.
    • : the underlying theoretical principles of a subject or field of inquiry.
    • : a treatise by Aristotle, dealing with first principles, the relation of universals to particulars, and the teleological doctrine of causation.

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Examples

  • Today, metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that, loosely speaking, deals with those assumptions which physicists make in the constructions of theories that are not grounded in empirical evidence.

  • “All these questions of physics and metaphysics have changed because physics have changed,” says Sánchez.

  • They are read as being about blackness, as both color and mental state, or even as metaphysics.

  • He is, perhaps, the first crime writer since Christopher Marlowe to have a degree in metaphysics.

  • For Schwartz, the car was a veritable metaphysics of social and psychological meaning.

  • The author has avoided technicalities, and has also resisted the temptation of the psychologist to indulge in metaphysics.

  • Metaphysics and natural philosophy expressed the genius of Europe; he substricts the religion of Asia as the base.

  • With Aristotle, ethics formed only one branch of attention; his main inquiries were in reference to physics and metaphysics.

  • All that I had ever read in psychology and metaphysics came back to me.

  • Besides these spoils, the poet of to-day revels in the results of later metaphysics.