metaphysical
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definition
noun
Or Eliot, who wrote on the Metaphysicals , Marvell, Dryden, Blake, Wordsworth, Baudelaire and, of course, Dante, as well as many other writers.
the metaphysical poets.
adjective
the essentially metaphysical question of the nature of the mind
of or relating to metaphysics.
On one level there is the English metaphysical tradition perhaps best exemplified by John Donne.
of or characteristic of the metaphysical poets.
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With the dual sensations of both physical and 'metaphysical' pleasure, it was extremely difficult not to moan his ecstasy aloud.
These belief assumptions, of course, do raise truth claims of a 'metaphysical' nature, but the way goes from within and out, and not the other way around.
On one level there is the English 'metaphysical' tradition perhaps best exemplified by John Donne.
In the 17th century this question sparked a furious 'metaphysical' and scientific controversy on the existence, nature and measure of force.
It is to this problem that Kant addressed himself, producing the most 'metaphysical' and abstract basis that has ever been given for the common intuitions of morality.
In light of that conviction, what could be taken as a purely 'metaphysical' question becomes much more practical: Where is the church in these terrible events?
So, for Heidegger, the nothing that opens in the experience of anxiety leads one to pose the 'metaphysical' question as to the meaning of being.
Thus Triodes unwillingly reinforces the Heideggerian fallacy that mythic or 'metaphysical' registers are directly generative of social programmes.
Some attacked his announcement, for example Smith who used a 'metaphysical' argument based on the simplicity of the inverse square law.
But the fact is, when I was a kid in Los Angeles, I was surrounded by numerous studies of a 'metaphysical' nature; it was just part of life there.
What is this 'metaphysical' view about free will that I wish to attack?
But either way, ID is a 'metaphysical' explanation by its nature, not merely by its implications.
However, the very strength of such an epistemological claim makes it difficult to assume with begging the 'metaphysical' result in question.
His enduring little classic, The Problems of Philosophy, sketches the 'metaphysical' and epistemological views he then held.
As an woman whose very life is jeopardized by the laws of the land, she responds to a different set of constraints, more material than 'metaphysical' .
This is a remarkable argument, whereby Davidson derives a 'metaphysical' conclusion concerning the physical nature of mental states from premisses which concern their causal role.
It has unlimited potential to explore all sorts of 'metaphysical' and moral questions, but it is not doing that.
However, Condillac had no right to simply-side step the 'metaphysical' question of the nature of body.
I think that the two types of cosmology, that is religious cosmology based on a 'metaphysical' vision or view of the universe and modern cosmology, should not be confused.
As that great deflator of 'metaphysical' questions, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, taught us, the meaning of a term is fixed by the community that uses it.
And then we are faced with the difficult 'metaphysical' question of whether such a universe is really possible.
The explanation for this is that physicians are ‘healers’ much in demand in dramas about physical, moral, 'metaphysical' evil.
In the hands of Velázquez, the existence of a jester could have the same physical - and 'metaphysical' - scale as that of an aristocrat.
There is no dematerialization, no aura: the glow rides the surface, more physical than 'metaphysical' .
On this 'metaphysical' question, I agree with William James and many contemporary thinkers that free will and determinism are incompatible.
And even if it could somehow be shown that the evil of such events is ‘unreal’ in some abstract 'metaphysical' sense, would that take away the reality of our feeling that it was evil?
Somehow this bunny seemed more physical and less 'metaphysical' .
As noted earlier, we do not ally ourselves with any specific 'metaphysical' view or theoretical system, and prefer a bottom-up approach.
They'll agree to explain the properties we're talking about in scientific terms, and still insist that their 'metaphysical' questions remain.
For Hopkins is not so much invoking the 'metaphysical' potential of nature, and its capacity to typify states of mind, as he is making a conservationist plea.
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