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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
- What is metaphysics? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
See Metaphysics: the science of being (according to Aristotle and his tradition) vs the inquiry about the fundamental problems of reality: Space and Time, Causation, Freedom and Determinism, the Mental and Physical (according to modern views) In both case, it is not theology (the "science of God")
- 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
- What is the nature of reality? Metaphysics: so the answer will explain . . .
4 Metaphysics is supposed to answer the question "What is the nature of reality?" Reality is by definition all that there is, so nature is part of it presuming it exists, if so then there cannot be a nature of reality
- metaphysics - Metaphysicist or Metaphysician? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Instead metaphysics is a 'discpline' of inquiry originating in Aristotle's Metaphysics and bears its name mainly due to that circumstance and maybe the fact that it deals with questions that are not or beyond physical However, in this light the choice metaphysician also seems awkward
- metaphysics - Can all truths be scientifically verified? - Philosophy . . .
metaphysics philosophy-of-science philosophy-of-mathematics truth Improve this question edited Sep 24, 2024 at 1:07 Julius Hamilton
- metaphysics - Why are metaphysicians obsessed with language . . .
Metaphysics (at the very least) lies in the province of the 'human' world — values, attitudes, ideals, social and cultural norms, etc — and the 'human' world is constructed in, mediated by, and infused with language
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