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Metaphysics
"Metaphysics" in a Sentence (19 examples)
While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.
The exact meaning of metaphysics is controversial.
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
Religion is the metaphysics of the common people.
Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.
He studies metaphysics.
He's studying metaphysics.
I've been meaning to read Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals.
Study metaphysics.
Your hesitation with astronomy—rooted in the indirectness of perception—is a valid phenomenological stance. After all, aside from the sun, moon, and a few visible stars or planets, most celestial truths reach us only through mediated instruments, data, and theory. You place yourself among the space-savvy, yet remain cautious, even skeptical, about the reach of human cognition. That’s a rare humility for someone informed. You're standing at the edge where metaphysics and epistemology meet the cosmos—asking not just what is out there, but how and whether we can truly know it. Would you like to explore a synthesis of Buddhist and Gnostic cosmology, perhaps in a poetic or metaphysical style?
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The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, "Professor Cohen how do I know that I exist?" The keen old prof replied, "And who is asking?"
Philosophers sometimes say that metaphysics is the study of the ultimate nature of the universe.
The metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas holds that all real beings have both essence and existence.
In Aristotelian metaphysics physical objects have both form and matter.
In his Pensées, Pascal mentioned some first principles recognized within his metaphysics: space, time, motion, and number.
Even other universes should be a result of different physics. Without rules, these universes wouldn't exist, because they will have an undefined, thus impossible, nature. We will never understand or guess all possible forms of physics. That's why we have to understand the generic metaphysics.
The metaphysics of global power has changed. Markets are now more valuable than territory.
I have a collection of books on metaphysics, covering astral projection, reincarnation, and communication with spirits.
This political polemic strikes me as a protracted piece of overwrought, fog-shrouded metaphysics!
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