metaphysics 的定义
- 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.
metaphysics 近义词
等同于 philosophy
更多metaphysics例句
- 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.