metaphysics
She claims that metaphysical beliefs are the result of our earliest experiences and the culture around us.
There is something exquisitely metaphysical, even mystical, about his approach to nature's complexity.
At the heart of the play lies a witty metaphysical conceit.
A singer can use music to transform everyday life into something metaphysical and profound.

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metaphysical | American Dictionary

metaphysical
adjective
us/ˌmet̬·əˈfɪz·ɪ·kəl/
relating to the part of philosophy that deals with existence and knowledge:
metaphysical questions about the nature of the universe

Examples of metaphysical

metaphysical
Well, perhaps there is none, if it is some bare logical or metaphysical impossibility that is being asked about.
The system of monads should be taken as the metaphysical model of the best of all possible worlds.
It relates to the here and now and not to some future or metaphysical realm.
It is, of course, true that earlier thinkers sought to justify their faith through the defence of metaphysical claims.
Note that the metaphysical thesis is stronger than the epistemological one.
There might be metaphysical, semantic or epistemological reason to think that reasons are a more fundamental normative element than values.
There are others, like those quantum theory asserts exist, that pertain to metaphysical indeterminacy and the non-existence of certain facts in the world.
Three notions of possibility which are of particular importance here are metaphysical, conceptual, and epistemic possibility.
As visual metaphors, they embody and represent concrete as well as traditional metaphysical concepts.
Some people, though not sophisticated philosophers nowadays, would be tempted by rule talk to make metaphysical mistakes.
Physical science in the modern sense is more or less absent, but metaphysical essays touching upon the subject were entirely typical.
However, since it cannot make any metaphysical promises to its adherents, one would expect that not everybody is "born" to live it.
People commonly regard monism as a doctrine in which parts are merged into and subservient before the whole - a kind of metaphysical totalitarianism.
Rather than illuminating a deeply entrenched metaphysical voice, she focuses on musical enactments of the body's motions.
For him, in symbolism as in metaphysical poetry, "the personal or human reality and the imaginative or divine reality must be perfectly interfused" (105).
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