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   metaphysics

   /ˌmɛtəˈfɪzɪks/

   plural

   • 1. the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, identity, time, and space: "they would regard the question of the initial conditions for the universe as belonging to the realm of metaphysics or religion"
   • ▪ abstract theory with no basis in reality: "the very subject of milk pricing involves one in a wonderland of accounting practice and a metaphysics all its own"

   Word Origin mid 16th century: representing medieval Latin metaphysica (neuter plural), based on Greek ta meta ta phusika ‘the things after the Physics’, referring to the sequence of Aristotle's works: the title came to denote the branch of study treated in the books, later interpreted as meaning ‘the science of things transcending what is physical or natural’.

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   • 1. metaphysicize verb

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   2 days ago · Idealism in philosophy, also known as philosophical idealism or metaphysical idealism, is the set of metaphysical perspectives asserting that, most fundamentally, reality is equivalent to mind, spirit, or consciousness; that reality is entirely a mental construct; or that ideas are the highest type of reality or have the greatest claim to being ...

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   5 days ago · Metaphysics Introduction. When one encounters the word “metaphysics,” what is usually meant is one of the three following ideas: What really exists, or at least what exist literally beyond what we know in physics. This is one of the oldest and fundamental branches in philosophy.

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    5 days ago · Metaphysics is the science that studies being qua being (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book Gamma), in other words it considers reality, which is to say existent or actual objects; according to Alexius Meinong, the theory of objects is an a priori science which concerns the whole of what is given, existent or nonexistent.