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  1. Please explain to a beginner: what is metaphysics?

    Aug 21, 2015 · 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 …

  2. 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 …

  3. What is metaphysics? - Philosophy Stack Exchange

    Aug 22, 2022 · 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 …

  4. 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 …

  5. metaphysics - Is it implausible to claim consciousness is a fundamental ...

    Mar 12, 2023 · The notion of fundamentality, as it is used in metaphysics, aims to capture the idea that there is something basic or primitive in the world. This metaphysical notion is related to the …

  6. What are some real-life applications of metaphysics?

    Mar 11, 2016 · 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.

  7. metaphysics - Is there not a muddy overlap between the great ...

    Jul 10, 2024 · However, by the late 19th and early 20th centuries 'metaphysics' had gained a colloquial meaning of 'grand theory': sophisticated, abstract, and speculative, but detached from reality. The …

  8. metaphysics - Fatalism vs Determinism vs Free-Will - Philosophy Stack ...

    Jul 9, 2023 · I understand that this is a bit simplistic, and would require a broad survey of at least Physics, Metaphysics, and Math to really fully motivate. Either way, doesn’t debate about free will …

  9. metaphysics - What does Pirsig mean by "Quality"? - Philosophy Stack ...

    Dec 18, 2015 · Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality gets to some recurrent questions that philosophy has encountered in a variety conundrums. In the following discussion I use signs to stand for any …

  10. metaphysics - What is onto-theology (Heideggerian)? - Philosophy …

    From what I understand, it is a term that combines ontology and theology, at least in the case of Heidegger, to describe modern metaphysics. To understand what onto-theology is, I first tried to