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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.
Are there metaphysical axioms? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
I mean the laws of logic also apply to metaphysics. But what are other axioms which apply to metaphysics or are purely metaphysical? Or are there none?
Is metaphysics completely subjective? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
As philosophy means love of wisdom, and metaphysics is wholly incapable of providing it, metaphysics cannot be philosophy, and this no matter what Wikipedia or junior college philosophy courses may suggest to the contrary.
metaphysics - What is onto-theology (Heideggerian)? - Philosophy Stack ...
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
Why did the logical positivists “reject metaphysics”?
Why would this exclude metaphysics (and ethics and aesthetics, as commonly said)? Metaphysics has always struck me as a deeply mathematical and logical topic. In fact, I had always considered that logic was the basis of metaphysics, that metaphysics was a corollary of logic; a collection of necessary statements about the nature of the world.
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.
metaphysics - What does Derrida mean by "presence"? - Philosophy Stack ...
In traditional metaphysics, being is defined as identity in presence. Although Husserlian phenomenology tried to move beyond this idea, it ultimately did not succeed. It continued to assume that identity is more fundamental than difference, closeness more original than distance, and that presence comes before any form of absence or negativity.
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").
Is metaphysics necessarily a 'first philosophy'?
The view metaphysics=first philosophy originated from Aristotle and was still supported by Descartes. Modern science, since Galileo and Newton, rejected the idea that "science is subject to it".Quine and Carnap are on the modern side of the debate.
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