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1. ((used with a sing. v.)) metaphysics
the branch of philosophy that treats of first principles, includes ontology and cosmology, and is intimately connected with epistemology.
2. metaphysics
philosophy, esp. in its more abstruse branches.
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) metaphysics
the philosophical study of being and knowing
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) 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
2. (noun) metaphysics
hence: The scientific knowledge of mental phenomena; mental philosophy; psychology
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. metaphysics
the science of being as being in contradistinction from a science of a particular species of being, the science of sciences, or the science of the ultimate grounds of all these, and presupposed by them, called by Plato dialectics, or the logic of being.
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The Roycroft Dictionary |
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metaphysics
1. An attempt to define a thing and by so doing escape the bother of understanding it.
2. The explanation of a thing by a person who does not understand it.
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U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. metaphysics
The branch of philosophy that treats of first principles, including ontology (the nature of existence or being) and cosmology (the origin and structure of the universe). (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
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