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- Please explain to a beginner: what is metaphysics?
7 Metaphysics is the title of a collection of lectures by Aristotle The name is not by Aristotle but due to a later librarian who edited all scriptures of Aristotle The librarian arranged the scripts in question behind Aristotle's scripts on physics which in Greek means meta ta physica
- What is the difference between metaphysics and ontology?
Metaphysics is a very broad field, and metaphysicians attempt to answer questions about how the world is Ontology is a related sub-field, partially within metaphysics, that answers questions of what things exist in the world An ontology posits which entities exist in the world
- metaphysics - Distinction between essence,substance, being . . .
Existence: I've never really seen this defined, and contemporary analytic metaphysics tends to make no distinction between existing and being The Meinongians famously distinguished between different kinds of being, where some things with being might not exist
- metaphysics - Are there metaphysical axioms? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
I mean the laws of logic also apply to metaphysics But what are other axioms which apply to metaphysics or are purely metaphysical? Or are there none?
- What are some real-life applications of metaphysics?
Metaphysics seems to be a field that is almost purely abstract However, I am also interested in knowing how metaphysics has impacted the real world, if at all
- metaphysics - What is the difference in concrete things between being . . .
metaphysics recognises the clearing of being either solely as the view of what is present in “outward appearance” (ἰδἐα) or critically as what is seen in the perspect of categorial representation on the part of subjectivity This means that the truth of being as the clearing itself remains concealed for metaphysics [163]
- metaphysics - What does Thomas Aquinas think about the nature of . . .
Here is what I was able to find on page 69 of Rahner's book at the Internet Archive: "Knowing does not come about “through a contact of the intellect with the intelligible thing,” but being and knowing are the same: “the intellect and the known and the knowing are the same ” Knowing is the being-present-to-self of being, and this being-present-to-self is the being of the existent
- Is metaphysics necessarily a first philosophy?
The view metaphysics=first philosophy originated from Aristotle and was still supported by Descartes Modern science, since Galileo and Newton, rejected the idea that "science is subject to it" Quine and Carnap are on the modern side of the debate
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