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metaphysics
- 1) noun, the branch of philosophy that deals with first principles, esp of being and knowing
- 2) noun, the philosophical study of the nature of reality, concerned with such questions as the existence of God, the external world, etc
- 3) noun, See descriptive metaphysics
- 4) noun, (popularly) abstract or subtle discussion or reasoning
Etymology
C16: from Medieval Latin, from Greek ta meta ta phusika the things after the physics, from the arrangement of the subjects treated in the works of Aristotle
Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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