A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. From LearnThat.org. [Walt Whitman (1819-1892)]
Until then your metaphysics is as valid as mine but no more so. From Wordnik.com. [Another Look] Reference
This is what I term the metaphysics of concept, for it is a speculation which consists in juggling with abstract ideas. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps] Reference
Heidegger sees modern technology as the fulfillment of Western metaphysics, which he characterizes as the metaphysics of presence. From Wordnik.com. [Postmodernism] Reference
As metaphysics is to physics, so pataphysics is to metaphysics. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk] Reference
Dueling metaphysics is where we deal with ultimate Truths, not science. From Wordnik.com. [A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis)] Reference
We must make an unprovable assumption around which our metaphysics is based. From Wordnik.com. [Assessing Causality] Reference
I told you, Winston, he said, that metaphysics is not your strong point. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Eighty-Four] Reference
I do not believe metaphysics is the same thing as science or the Scientific Method. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Teeth] Reference
A leading theory floating out there in metaphysics land forces reduction by gravity. From Wordnik.com. [A Biologos Position] Reference
Defining it as metaphysics is still like Christians defining evolution as a religion. From Wordnik.com. [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference
That's a problem of boxed-in metaphysics, not necessarily a limitation on nature at all. From Wordnik.com. [Continuation…] Reference
And if your truism about Occam and metaphysics is correct, everything is equally "the Truth". From Wordnik.com. [Behe: ID rescues Common Descent] Reference
What distinguishes physics from metaphysics is the recognition of that basic epistemological reality. From Wordnik.com. [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference
For one thing, it does not appear that you have a sufficient background in metaphysics to engage in debate. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: July 7, 2006] Reference
My 'side' of the dueling metaphysics is and has always been the U.S. Constitution, specifically Amendment #1. From Wordnik.com. [A Voice from the Middle Ground] Reference
His logic is what is usually known as metaphysics: a philosophy of Being as revealed through abstract thought. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
You're sending the clear (although somewhat camoflauged message) that our metaphysics is more real than yours. From Wordnik.com. [Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?] Reference
For people like myself who don't dabble in metaphysics, it will be a welcome shift towards reality and responsibility. From Wordnik.com. [Obama meets with religious leaders behind closed doors] Reference
IOW, you're getting too far into the science to play well in the sociopolitical arena where the dueling metaphysics is going on. From Wordnik.com. [A Voice from the Middle Ground] Reference
The word metaphysics is formed from the Greek meta ta phusika, a title which, about the year A.D. 70, was related by Andronicus of. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
What lies behind them is something called 'metaphysics' - from the word 'meta-', meaning 'after' or 'above'. From Wordnik.com. [SOL #1.5 Evidence (end of chapter one)] Reference
Manzi uses the term metaphysics to describe it. From Wordnik.com. [The Dawn Treader] Reference
Nobody had to rename metaphysics "ID" in order to do that. From Wordnik.com. [Aiguy's Computer] Reference
I regard it as a great curiosity, and an important question in metaphysics. From Wordnik.com. [Melbourne House] Reference
Miss West would dub my metaphysics a depressing and unhealthful exercise of my wits. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 19] Reference
Their metaphysics is their shelter, and I would not deny them their metaphysics as I would not deny them a bed. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
Let me give you my definition of metaphysics, that is to say, the science of the unknown, the science of guessing. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc.] Reference
Natural theology is a branch of metaphysics, which is a branch of philosophy, which is an exercise of human reason. From Wordnik.com. [Essence/energies: a reply to Benedict Seraphim] Reference
Ah, me, I know that the practical Miss West would dub my metaphysics a depressing and unhealthful exercise of my wits. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference
You are trying to reify choice, the same way you tried to reify intelligence, and that is why you end up in metaphysics. From Wordnik.com. [Aiguy's Computer] Reference
What is called metaphysics, if not an anticipation of natural science, is a confusion of it with dialectic or a mixture of it with myths. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
It could be that such "metaphysics" affects our understanding in subtle and not so subtle ways. From Wordnik.com. [Evolving Darwin Day] Reference
Thus the only metaphysics which is possible is that which he had called the pure science of nature. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Critics have gone too far in undermining fields of philosophy such as metaphysics and central concepts such as rationality. From Wordnik.com. [Analytic Feminism] Reference
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