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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 - 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?
- 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 - What is the purpose of answers to metaphysical questions . . .
7 Generally speaking, metaphysics seems to deal with questions that cannot be verified empirically, which are thus beyond the understanding of science Because of this I'm wondering whether the answers metaphysics provides to these questions are in any way useful
- 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 is the difference between the spiritual and the . . .
Metaphysics can be understood as dealing with what is common in the (empirical) sciences in a generalizing manner Whereas biology deals with objects like cells, physics with atoms, chemistry with elements and mathematics with sets or numbers, metaphysics asks what it means to be an object at all and discusses our limits in understanding objects in general Whereas medicine is concerned with
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