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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.
What are some real-life applications of metaphysics?
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.
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 - Fatalism vs Determinism vs Free-Will - Philosophy Stack ...
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 have more to do with Fatalism than Determinism?
metaphysics - What is the difference between naturalism and materialism ...
What is the difference between naturalism and materialism, if any? I see definitions of naturalism that say, in effect, it is the belief that there is no supernatural. But what is the supernatural
metaphysics - What does Pirsig mean by "Quality"? - Philosophy Stack ...
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 empirically observable language such as spoken, written or signed languages.
metaphysics - Arguments for determinism - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Has any well-known philosopher tried to "prove" that determinism is true? This means, has anybody given a metaphysical argument for the necessary truth of determinism? I searched for examples, but...
metaphysics - Is there not a muddy overlap between the great ...
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 idealism of someone like Hegel did not resonate in a world of rampaging industrial destruction, total war, and other forms of wholesale brutality.
metaphysics - How to understand Prime matter? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
In the Aristotle-Aquinas tradition prime matter is the thing that underlies all material things. It is described as completely indeterminate-pure potentiality. Aristotle held that it was not create...
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