metaphysical
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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 could be argued that the inverted spectrum hypothesis is incoherent for deep 'metaphysical' and empirical reasons.
If so, the whole identity issue is undecidable, since one is demanding 'metaphysical' answers to questions that are in large part semantical.
There is no dematerialization, no aura: the glow rides the surface, more physical than 'metaphysical' .
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?
By the end of his journey - both physical and 'metaphysical' - our tycoon will become the title character.
Her first collection of poems interrogates the nature of physical and the 'metaphysical' knowledge.
And an immersion in his oeuvre is an effective cure for many chronic ailments of a 'metaphysical' nature that one might suffer.
As noted earlier, we do not ally ourselves with any specific 'metaphysical' view or theoretical system, and prefer a bottom-up approach.
With the dual sensations of both physical and 'metaphysical' pleasure, it was extremely difficult not to moan his ecstasy aloud.
Our situation is something like the one to which we are assigned by a considerable number of 'metaphysical' philosophers, notably Plato.
What is this 'metaphysical' view about free will that I wish to attack?
Again, we find no reason to suppose that 'metaphysical' issues can be cleanly detached from epistemological concerns.
This, in turn, is based on the 'metaphysical' assumption that the universe is harmonious and coherent.
Systems of thought that are fundamentally 'metaphysical' in nature are not testable and can therefore never be proven incorrect.
Perhaps Kant was correct when he said that although we can never hope to answer our 'metaphysical' questions, we can't help asking them anyway.
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.
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.
Somehow this bunny seemed more physical and less 'metaphysical' .
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' .
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.
Now it is the confused management of 'metaphysical' and spiritual matters.
However, the very strength of such an epistemological claim makes it difficult to assume with begging the 'metaphysical' result in question.
However, Condillac had no right to simply-side step the 'metaphysical' question of the nature of body.
His enduring little classic, The Problems of Philosophy, sketches the 'metaphysical' and epistemological views he then held.
The traditional concept of free will enters the mainstream of Western Philosophy in 'metaphysical' questions about human responsibility for moral behavior.
Understanding the 'metaphysical' through the physical or searching for the Reality behind the Appearance, constitutes the basic concept of the religious quest of the Bouls.
But either way, ID is a 'metaphysical' explanation by its nature, not merely by its implications.
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?
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.
On this 'metaphysical' question, I agree with William James and many contemporary thinkers that free will and determinism are incompatible.
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