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- Please explain to a beginner: what is metaphysics?
7 Metaphysics is the title of a collection of lectures by Aristotle The name is not by Aristotle but due to a later librarian who edited all scriptures of Aristotle The librarian arranged the scripts in question behind Aristotle's scripts on physics which in Greek means meta ta physica
- What is the difference between metaphysics and ontology?
Metaphysics is a very broad field, and metaphysicians attempt to answer questions about how the world is Ontology is a related sub-field, partially within metaphysics, that answers questions of what things exist in the world An ontology posits which entities exist in the world
- metaphysics - Distinction between essence,substance, being . . .
Existence: I've never really seen this defined, and contemporary analytic metaphysics tends to make no distinction between existing and being The Meinongians famously distinguished between different kinds of being, where some things with being might not exist
- What are some real-life applications of metaphysics?
Metaphysics seems to be a field that is almost purely abstract However, I am also interested in knowing how metaphysics has impacted the real world, if at all
- metaphysics - Metaphysicist or Metaphysician? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Instead metaphysics is a 'discpline' of inquiry originating in Aristotle's Metaphysics and bears its name mainly due to that circumstance and maybe the fact that it deals with questions that are not or beyond physical However, in this light the choice metaphysician also seems awkward
- metaphysics - What does Pirsig mean by Quality? - Philosophy Stack . . .
Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality gets to some recurrent questions that philosophy has encountered in a variety conundrums In the following discussion I use signs to stand for any empirically observable language such as spoken, written or signed languages
- metaphysics - Is there not a muddy overlap between the great . . .
However, by the late 19th and early 20th centuries 'metaphysics' had gained a colloquial meaning of 'grand theory': sophisticated, abstract, and speculative, but detached from reality The idealism of someone like Hegel did not resonate in a world of rampaging industrial destruction, total war, and other forms of wholesale brutality
- metaphysics - Can all truths be scientifically verified? - Philosophy . . .
metaphysics philosophy-of-science philosophy-of-mathematics truth Improve this question edited Sep 24, 2024 at 1:07 Julius Hamilton
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