Metaphysic definition

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An underlying philosophical or theoretical principle.

A belief in luck, the metaphysic of the gambler.

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Metaphysics.
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A system of metaphysics.
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(rare) Metaphysical.
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(philosophy, archaic) Metaphysical.
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(philosophy, uncountable, archaic) The field of study of metaphysics.
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(philosophy, countable) The metaphysical system of a particular philosopher or of a particular school of thought.
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(philosophy, countable) A fundamental principle or key concept.
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Origin of metaphysic

  • Middle English methaphisik, metaphisik metaphysics

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Metaphysic Sentence Examples

  • There is every appearance that the author was a Hellenist who lacked knowledge of the Hebrew text, and derived his metaphysic and his allegorical method from the Alexandrian rather than the Palestinian schools.

  • He avers that this " metaphysic of experience " is not idealism, or the tenet that consciousness is the only reality.

  • In its metaphysic it showed no failure in dialectical constructiveness.

  • Huxley (Science and Culture) and Shadworth Hodgson (Metaphysic of Experience and Theory of Practice), must be distinguished from that of the psychophysical parallelism, or the "double aspect theory" according to which both the mental state and the physical phenomena result from a so-called "mind stuff," or single substance, the material or cause of both.

  • A similar metaphysic from a different starting-point is found in Heraclitus, who postulates behind the perpetually changing universe of phenomena a One which remains.

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