metaphysics (Q35277)

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branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of reality
  • Metaphysics
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metaphysics
branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of reality
  • Metaphysics

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Beginning of book 7 of Aristotle’s Metaphysics: Ens dicitur multipliciter (“the word ‘to be’ has many senses”) (English)
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Dean W. Zimmerman
A.C. Grayling
Richard Wolin
Peter van Inwagen
William Henry Walsh
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It is not easy to say what metaphysics is. Ancient and Medieval philosophers might have said that metaphysics was, like chemistry or astrology, to be defined by its subject-matter: metaphysics was the “science” that studied “being as such” or “the first causes of things” or “things that do not change”. It is no longer possible to define metaphysics that way, for two reasons. (English)
Metaphysics
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Metaphysics: explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world (English)
28 February 2022
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