Crossword-Solution: METAPHYSICS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Metaphysics | n. | The science of real as distinguished from phenomenal being; ontology; also, the science of being, with reference to its abstract and universal conditions, as distinguished from the science of determined or concrete being; the science of the conceptions and relations which are necessarily implied as true of every kind of being; phylosophy in general; first principles, or the science of first principles. |
| Metaphysics | n. | Hence: The scientific knowledge of mental phenomena; mental philosophy; psychology. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “METAPHYSICS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the philosophical study of being and knowing | 1 answer |
| study of truth | 1 answer |
| study of principles of nature and thought | 1 answer |
| Philosophy division | 1 answer |
| Aristotle masterpiece | 1 answer |
| Philosophical study of abstract concepts | 1 answer |
| Field for Aristotle | 1 answer |
| BEING in the abstract, science of | 2 answers |
| SCIENCE concerned with the essence of things | 2 answers |
| SCIENCE concerned with being in the abstract | 2 answers |
| ABHIDHAMMA, subject of | 2 answers |
| ARISTOTLE, subject of | 6 answers |
| ontology | 7 answers |
| occultism | 23 answers |
| Philosophy | 28 answers |
| Existence | 74 answers |
| Essence | 85 answers |
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Sentences with METAPHYSICS (5)
There are nearer approaches to modern metaphysics in the Philebus and in the Sophist; the Politicus or Statesman is more ideal; the form and institutions of the State are more clearly drawn out in the Laws; as works of art, the Symposium and the Protagoras are of higher excellence.
How long I might have remained lost in the mist of my own metaphysics, if I had been left to extricate myself, it is impossible for me to say.
Happily for me, I was as much interested in metaphysics as Diamond himself, and therefore, while he recounted his conversations with North Wind, I did not find myself at all in a strange sea, although certainly I could not always feel the bottom, being indeed convinced that the bottom was miles away.
Brocardica, Brocardicorum opus, a collection of ecclesiastical canons by Burkhard, Bishop of Worms, called, by the Italians and French, Brocard.] An elementary principle or maximum; a short, proverbial rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics.
When at last I was roused from this state of suffering, I could not of course in those days (knowing no verbal metaphysics, and no metaphysics at all, except by the dreadful experience of an abstract idea)—I could not of course find words to describe the nature of my sensations, and even now I cannot explain why it is that the forced contemplation of a mere quality, distinct from matter, should be so terrible.
Quotes with METAPHYSICS (3)
It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightly, lightly — it’s the best advice ever given me. When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic. No rhetoric, no tremolos, no self conscious persona putting o…
It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary... but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.
The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.
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Used 3 times in crossword archives (1974–2016).