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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

May 30, 2020 · Metaphysics can be understood as dealing with what is common in the (empirical) sciences in a generalizing manner. Whereas biology deals with objects like cells, physics with …

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

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 …

Aug 27, 2025 · Metaphysics (at the very least) lies in the province of the 'human' world — values, attitudes, ideals, social and cultural norms, etc — and the 'human' world is constructed in, …

Aug 22, 2022 · In a discussion with a friend I came about asking what was metaphysics? I thought it was something about physics, since, meta, has come to mean about. But physics is a …

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 …