In the language of philosophy, this is known as a purely metaphysical outlook which operates with immutable, non-historical, dogmatic concepts. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
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In addition, the English word "metaphysical" is defined to mean something that is outside the realm of empirical verification. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Flew dies at 87] Reference
There were, in truth, many such theories, and to some of them the term metaphysical, in M. Comte's sense, cannot justly be applied. From Wordnik.com. [Auguste Comte and Positivism] Reference
He said the term metaphysical is often misunderstood and said it's about the power of the mind, not some strange spiritual practice. From Wordnik.com. [Local News from The Lakeland Ledger] Reference
One student, Stacy, was struggling with what she referred to as a metaphysical “thorn” in her foot. From Wordnik.com. [When Animals Speak] Reference
Science rests on certain metaphysical assumptions. From Wordnik.com. [A Telic View of the Universe] Reference
What's more, there are built in metaphysical escape hatches. From Wordnik.com. [Confirmation Bias and ID] Reference
Your understanding involved itself in metaphysical absurdity. From Wordnik.com. [Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification] Reference
In 2006, Giannoulias was breaking new ground in metaphysical banking. From Wordnik.com. [TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads] Reference
He uses the word metaphysical frequently as a synonym for supernatural. From Wordnik.com. [About.com Buddhism] Reference
Are you no longer read to? or are you no longer interested in metaphysical works?. From Wordnik.com. [Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters] Reference
Funny why do the so called proponets of science keep bringing in metaphysical musings?. From Wordnik.com. [Culture War in Britain] Reference
Actually, think of GORMENGHAST where the metaphysical is so subtle as to be almost not-there. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Fiction 8] Reference
Nobody accuses Dr. Behe of entangling science in metaphysical speculations about first causes. From Wordnik.com. [Creationism, defined] Reference
They crawled and climbed and scrambled over high ethical plateaus and ranges, or drowned themselves in metaphysical seas of sentimentality. From Wordnik.com. [The Passing of Marcus O'Brien] Reference
They crawled and climbed and scrambled over high ethical plateaux and ranges, or drowned themselves in metaphysical seas of sentimentality. From Wordnik.com. [The Passing of Marcus O'Brien] Reference
Btw, Dummett is the one who introduced this as the right kind of way to think about the meanings involved in metaphysical disputes, and it's fairly standard now. From Wordnik.com. [Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID] Reference
But not so with what I have termed metaphysical teleology. From Wordnik.com. [A Candid Examination of Theism] Reference
Such miscalled metaphysical systems are reeds shaken by the wind. From Wordnik.com. [No and Yes] Reference
This is the subject of what called the metaphysical and moral sciences. From Wordnik.com. [On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes: Lecture I] Reference
This is the subject of what are called the metaphysical and moral sciences. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
A first stab at the notion might use what we now call metaphysical necessity. From Wordnik.com. [Logical Consequence] Reference
What is meant cannot be what is called metaphysical or broadly logical impossibility. From Wordnik.com. [Certainty] Reference
This is a characteristic point, and it appears in what we must call his metaphysical system. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference
In the 17th century, most of the so-called metaphysical poets were not even aware of each other. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Such has actually been the fate of the so-called metaphysical solution of special problems of nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Approach to Philosophy] Reference
English novels not intensely "No'th'n" nor "metaphysical" -- according to the accepted Southern beliefs. From Wordnik.com. [Sally Dows] Reference
The ideas thus acquired what is called metaphysical subsistence; for they stood in the place of the Eleatic. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
The lack of evidence for the metaphysical is the reason for denying its existence, it is not a blind assertion. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
In this arrangement the primary perfection is termed the metaphysical essence, the others are called attributes. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
She passes her time in metaphysical discussion and the manufacture of novelty-sized cheques for anyone who’ll have them. From Wordnik.com. [2010 January « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
This form of antipsychologism can therefore be described as metaphysical in the same sense as the postulate of an empty space. From Wordnik.com. [On A Trans-Atlantic Flight] Reference
He is led to this conception by, among other things, the difficulties associated with the notion of metaphysical or transeunt causality. From Wordnik.com. [Hermann Lotze] Reference
There exists a school of thought contending that evolutionary biology can determine the origin of what we would term metaphysical values. From Wordnik.com. [Berlinski's Wisdom] Reference
How you figure net worth is kind of metaphysical, isn't it?. From Wordnik.com. [The Sum of all Fears]
I think he was a lot of times asking questions and looking for answers to kind of metaphysical questions. From Wordnik.com. [The Justice from Beacon Hill] Reference
Mayer (1842), Colding (1843), founded partly on experiment, and partly on a kind of metaphysical reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882] Reference
Horkheimer rejects this kind of metaphysical view because it seeks to cover over the reality of human suffering. From Wordnik.com. [Max Horkheimer] Reference
This includes Sartre, who began his career by throwing out all the "metaphysical" elements in Husserl, and leaving only the method. From Wordnik.com. [Sartre] Reference
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