metaphysical

Examples of metaphysics

metaphysics
With a background in philosophical logic and metaphysics, his current research interests focus on the theoretical basis of bioethical inquiry.
The very fact that the word "philosophia" has been transferred from the seven liberal arts to natural science and metaphysics is significant.
While data cannot falsify scientific theory, data, however, unlike scientific theory, can falsify metaphysics.
It does not aim to reproduce existing categories of legal thought but to refashion them in the light of a defensible metaphysics or politics.
Attaining these cognitions will require the mastery of both metaphysics and physics, which entails that only a philosopher can attain this perfection.
True enough if philosophy, theology, and metaphysics are not serious academic exercises.
The biblical orientation is, of course, prominent, but in addition he combines it with logic and metaphysics.
Idealism, like any philosophically decent metaphysics, can be logically sustained in the teeth of any evidence, if one isn't scared of wild ideas.
Many philosophers have objected to the metaphysics of self behind multiple-lives views.
The sufficiency of the metaphysics was judged in turn by whether the constraints it dictated resulted in explanations that were conceivable or plausible.
Jevons, like many of his contemporaries, simply dropped the metaphysics of free will from the list of things that successful human science needed to support.
It also generates a critique of any modern metaphysics of the subject as itself a ground - of value, of knowledge, or of the world.
And finally, it's the practice of the sciences to avoid inflationary metaphysics.
He holds that when doing metaphysics, we ought to refrain from making judgements about what we do not clearly and distinctly understand.
In effect, he became one of metaphysics' sacrificial lambs.
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