metaphysical
metafizik
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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It drew out 'metaphysical' questions as it prompted the Futurist to focus on the movement or temporality inherent in things, and hence the instability of the geophysical world, its objects and its events.
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' .
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?
It is only then that the union of the physical and the 'metaphysical' becomes complete, and the body does what the mind tells it to do.
Somehow this bunny seemed more physical and less 'metaphysical' .
Some attacked his announcement, for example Smith who used a 'metaphysical' argument based on the simplicity of the inverse square law.
At every stage of life, Wharton searched in religion and philosophy for answers to pressing 'metaphysical' and ontological questions.
Clearly, whether that inference is valid or not turns on a 'metaphysical' question about the identity of persons and minds.
Even as intellectuals dismiss the nation-space as a 'metaphysical' concept, a transcendent notion, countless people across the world die and kill in the name of a nation.
Her first collection of poems interrogates the nature of physical and the 'metaphysical' knowledge.
John Donne, 'metaphysical' poetry, ovarian cancer and chemotherapy might not normally suggest an entertaining night at the theatre.
With the dual sensations of both physical and 'metaphysical' pleasure, it was extremely difficult not to moan his ecstasy aloud.
Given this view of the progressive 'metaphysical' appropriation of ontology as a wrong turn, Heidegger has no choice but go back to the start and take another fork in the road.
However, the very strength of such an epistemological claim makes it difficult to assume with begging the 'metaphysical' result in question.
Here, in language, & still more in logic, we are point blank at issue - There is a moral or 'metaphysical' part of nature as well as a physical.
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.
The traditional concept of free will enters the mainstream of Western Philosophy in 'metaphysical' questions about human responsibility for moral behavior.
And then we are faced with the difficult 'metaphysical' question of whether such a universe is really possible.
As noted earlier, we do not ally ourselves with any specific 'metaphysical' view or theoretical system, and prefer a bottom-up approach.
His enduring little classic, The Problems of Philosophy, sketches the 'metaphysical' and epistemological views he then held.
The pursuit of such 'metaphysical' questions is just a high-minded distraction from the more pressing issue of confronting the dilemma of one's existence here and now.
David is not a character of merit or interest, no matter what 'metaphysical' hoops he is forced through.
By the end of his journey - both physical and 'metaphysical' - our tycoon will become the title character.
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.
Our situation is something like the one to which we are assigned by a considerable number of 'metaphysical' philosophers, notably Plato.
The essay is a reflection by Nancy on the physical and 'metaphysical' fallout of the heart transplant he had received ten years previously.
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.
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.
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