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1. Metaphysics: Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality. This includes the first principles of: being or existence, identity, change, space and time, cause and effect, necessity, actuality, and possibility. (Philosophy) [100%] 2023-10-19 [Metaphysics]
2. Metaphysics: Metaphysics (from Greek: μετά (meta) = "after", φύσις (phúsis) = "nature") is the branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the nature of the world. It is the study of being or reality. [100%] 2024-01-26
3. Metaphysics: Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy concerned with the fundamental nature of reality. It draws its name from from the Greek meta ta phusika, meaning literally 'beyond physics', because the book comes after the Physics in the order assigned by ... [100%] 2023-02-07 [Philosophy] [Buddhism]...
4. Metaphysics: Metaphysics (from Greek: μετά (meta) = "after", φύσις (phúsis) = "nature") is the branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the nature of the world. It is the study of being or reality. [100%] 2023-10-19
5. Metaphysics: Metaphysics (Greek: μετά (meta)="after," φυσικά (phisiká)="those on nature," derived from the arrangement of Aristotle's works) is the branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the nature of the most fundamental aspects of the world. It addresses questions such as: What is ... [100%] 2023-02-03
6. Metaphysics: Metaphysics (* 8. Dezember 1973 in Mbare, einem Vorort von Harare, Simbabwe, als Herbert Qwela Schwamborn) ist ein simbabwesischer Rapper, Komponist und Musikproduzent mit Wurzeln in Simbabwe und Deutschland. [100%] 2024-01-19
7. Metaphysics: Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality. This includes the first principles of: being or existence, identity, change, space and time, cause and effect, necessity, actuality, and possibility. (Branch of philosophy dealing with reality) [100%] 2024-01-02 [Metaphysics]
8. Metaphysics: It is not easy to say what metaphysics is. Ancient and Medieval philosophers might have said that metaphysics was, like chemistry or astrology, to be defined by its subject-matter: metaphysics was the “science” that studied “being as such” or ... (Philosophy) [100%] 2021-12-24
9. Metaphysics: Metaphysics refers generally to one of two similar but distinct uses of the term. In general, metaphysics is the study of that which is beyond the physical or scientific, and includes the study of the origin of all things, morality ... [100%] 2023-12-13 [Philosophy]
10. Metaphysics: Metaphysics, or Metaphysic, the accepted name of one of the four great departments of philosophy. The term was first applied to one of the treatises of Aristotle on the basis of the arrangement of the Aristotelian canon made by Andronicus ... [100%] 2022-09-02
11. Metaphysics: Metaphysics (Greek: μετά (meta)="after," φυσικά (phisiká)="those on nature," derived from the arrangement of Aristotle's works) is the branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the nature of the most fundamental aspects of the world. It addresses questions such as: What is ... [100%] 2023-02-04
12. Feminist Metaphysics: Metaphysics is the study of the basic structure of reality, of what there is and what it is like. It considers, for example, concepts such as identity, causation, substance, and kind, that seem to be presupposed by any form of ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2021-12-24
13. Metaphysics (Aristotle): Metaphysics (Greek: τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά, "those after the physics"; Latin: Metaphysica) is one of the principal works of Aristotle, in which he develops the doctrine that he calls First Philosophy. The work is a compilation of various texts treating abstract subjects, notably substance ... (Aristotle) [70%] 2024-01-02 [Metaphysics literature] [Works by Aristotle]...
14. Aristotle’s Metaphysics: The first major work in the history of philosophy to bear the title “Metaphysics” was the treatise by Aristotle that we have come to know by that name. But Aristotle himself did not use that title or even describe his ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2021-12-24
15. al-Farabi’s Metaphysics: “Al-Fârâbî’s metaphysics”, as understood here, means not just his views, and arguments for those views, on a series of metaphysical topics, but his project of reconstructing and reviving metaphysics as a science. This is part of his larger project ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2022-02-16
16. Presuppositionalist Metaphysics: Presuppositionalist Metaphysics holds that first principles should be discovered or known prior to developing an empirical method of inquiry. This is a time-honored philosophy that is still held by apologists the world over. [70%] 2023-03-06 [Philosophy]
17. Serial Metaphysics: Serial Metaphysics is a 1972 collage film by experimental filmmaker Wheeler Winston Dixon. An examination of the American lifestyle recut entirely from existing television commercials creating "a vision of the world as viewed through the eyes of the corporate sponsor ... [70%] 2024-05-19 [1972 films] [Collage film]...
18. David Lewis’s Metaphysics: David Lewis produced a body of philosophical writing that, in four books and scores of articles, spanned every major philosophical area, with perhaps the greatest concentration in metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and philosophy of mind. Despite this astonishing ... (Philosophy) [57%] 2021-12-24
19. Doctor of Metaphysics: Doctor of Metaphysics (PhD, Ph.D., or DMETA; Latin: Metaphysica doctor or doctor Metaphysica), also called a Metaphysical Science Doctorate, is a purported academic degree. While academic universities may teach Metaphysics as a branch of Philosophy, the Doctor of Metaphysics ... (Postgraduate academic degree) [57%] 2023-12-28 [Titles] [Degrees offered by unaccredited institutions of higher education]...
20. Metaphysics (Alternate View): AN INVESTIGATION OF THE LAWS UNDERLYING REALITY OR A THEORY OF EVERYTHING Calgea 22:16, 10 December 2008 (UTC) Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, substance and ... (Alternate View) [57%] 2024-01-26 [Philosophy] [Metaphysics]...
21. Doctor of Metaphysics: Template:Infobox examination Doctor of Metaphysics (PhD, Ph.D., or DMETA; Latin: Metaphysica doctor or doctor Metaphysica) is an academic degree which is a branch of philosophy. It is also called a Metaphysical Science Doctorate. (Social) [57%] 2023-12-29 [Doctoral degrees]
22. Metaphysics of presence: The concept of the metaphysics of presence is an important consideration in deconstruction. Deconstructive interpretation holds that the entire history of Western philosophy with its language and traditions has emphasized the desire for immediate access to meaning, and thus built ... (Philosophy) [57%] 2023-12-01 [Concepts in metaphysics] [Deconstruction]...
23. Ibn Sina’s Metaphysics: For Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) metaphysics is a science (ʿilm), i.e., a perfectly rationally established discipline that allows human reason to achieve an authentic understanding of the inner structure of the world. Metaphysics is the science of being qua being and ... (Philosophy) [57%] 2022-07-23
24. Descartes’ Modal Metaphysics: Descartes sometimes speaks of things that have possible existence, in addition to speaking of things as having actual existence. He also speaks of eternal and necessary truths that are the product of God’s free and wholly unconstrained activity. (Philosophy) [57%] 2022-02-20
25. Leibniz’s Modal Metaphysics: In the main article on Leibniz, it was claimed that Leibniz's philosophy can be seen as a reaction to the Cartesian theory of corporeal substance and the necessitarianism of Spinoza and Hobbes. This entry will address this second aspect ... (Philosophy) [57%] 2022-04-19
26. Spinoza’s Modal Metaphysics: Spinoza’s views on necessity and possibility, which he claimed were the “principal foundation” of his Ethics (Ep75), have been less than well received by his readers, to put it mildly. From Spinoza’s contemporaries to our own, readers of ... (Philosophy) [57%] 2021-12-29
27. Nominalism in Metaphysics: Nominalism comes in at least two varieties. In one of them it is the rejection of abstract objects;. (Philosophy) [57%] 2022-03-24
28. University of Metaphysics: The University of Metaphysics is a distance learning, unaccredited theological school operated by International Metaphysical Ministry. Students are prepared for ministerial positions and other related careers in the New Thought branch of metaphysical theology. (Organization) [57%] 2023-12-29 [Distance education]
29. Platonism in Metaphysics: Platonism is the view that there exist such things as abstract objects — where an abstract object is an object that does not exist in space or time and which is therefore entirely non-physical and non-mental. Platonism in this ... (Philosophy) [57%] 2021-12-24
30. Metaphysics (Alternate View): AN INVESTIGATION OF THE LAWS UNDERLYING REALITY OR A THEORY OF EVERYTHING Calgea 22:16, 10 December 2008 (UTC) Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, substance and ... (Alternate View) [57%] 2023-12-16 [Philosophy] [Metaphysics]...
31. Universal (metaphysics): In metaphysics, a universal is what particular things have in common, namely characteristics or qualities. In other words, universals are repeatable or recurrent entities that can be instantiated or exemplified by many particular things. (Philosophy) [70%] 2023-09-07 [Concepts in aesthetics] [Concepts in epistemology]...
32. Modal metaphysics: Modal metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that investigates the metaphysics underlying statements about possible or a priori statements. (Philosophy) [70%] 2023-12-13
33. Grounding (metaphysics): Grounding is a topic in metaphysics. Consider an ordinary physical object, such as a table, and the atoms it is made of. (Metaphysics) [70%] 2023-12-22 [Concepts in metaphysics]
34. Extension (metaphysics): In metaphysics, extension signifies both 'stretching out' (Latin: extensio) as well as later 'taking up space', and most recently, spreading one's internal mental cognition into the external world. The history of thinking about extension can be traced back at ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2024-01-05 [Metaphysics of science]
35. Species (metaphysics): Species, in metaphysics, is a specific genus-differentia defined item that is described first by its genus (genos) and then its differentia (diaphora). Put differently, it is an item, not necessarily biological, that belongs to a group and can be ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2023-10-18 [Metaphysics]
36. Dynamism (metaphysics): Dynamism is a general name for a group of philosophical views concerning the nature of matter. However different they may be in other respects, all these views agree in making matter consist essentially of simple and indivisible units, substances, or ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2023-11-13 [Metaphysical theories]
37. Grounding (metaphysics): Grounding is a topic in metaphysics. Consider an ordinary physical object, such as a table, and the atoms it is made of. (Philosophy) [70%] 2023-12-16 [Concepts in metaphysics]
38. Sufi metaphysics: In Islamic philosophy, Sufi metaphysics is centered on the concept of Arabic: وحدة or Arabic: توحيد. Two main Sufi philosophies prevail on this topic. (Philosophy) [70%] 2023-11-13 [Monism] [Metaphysics of religion]...
39. Libertarianism (metaphysics): Libertarianism is one of the main philosophical positions related to the problems of free will and determinism which are part of the larger domain of metaphysics. In particular, libertarianism is an incompatibilist position which argues that free will is logically ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2023-09-20 [Determinism] [Free will]...
40. Feminist metaphysics: Feminist metaphysics aims to question how inquiries and answers in the field of metaphysics have supported sexism. Feminist metaphysics overlaps with fields such as the philosophy of mind and philosophy of self. (Philosophy) [70%] 2023-11-03
41. Sufi metaphysics: In Islamic philosophy, Sufi metaphysics is centered on the concept of وحدة, waḥdah, 'unity' or توحيد, tawhid. Two main Sufi philosophies prevail on this topic. (Part of Sufi Islamic philosophy) [70%] 2024-08-23 [Sufi philosophy] [Monism]...
42. Balance (metaphysics): In metaphysics, balance is a point between two opposite forces that is desirable over purely one state or the other, such as a balance between the metaphysical law and chaos — law by itself being overly controlling, chaos being overly unmanageable ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2024-09-13 [Philosophical analogies]