Hence: The scientific knowledge of mental phenomena; mental philosophy; psychology.
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.
Noun
the philosophical study of being and knowing
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.
n.
Hence: The scientific knowledge of mental phenomena;
mental philosophy; psychology.
Metaphysics
Commonly, in the schools, called metaphysics, as being part of the philosophy of Aristotle, which hath that for title; but it is in another sense: for there it signifieth as much as "books written or placed after his natural philosophy." But the schools take them for "books of supernatural philosophy;" for the word metaphysic will bear both these senses.
Now the science conversant about all such inferences of unknown being from its known manifestations, is called ontology, or metaphysics proper.
Metaphysics are [is] the science which determines what can and what can not be known of being, and the laws of being, a priori.2.
Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science or complement of sciences exclusively occupied with mind.
Whether, after all, A larger metaphysics might not help Our physics.
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.
Usage Examples
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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Other Usage ExamplesLiberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.