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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.
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.
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").
What is the nature of reality? Metaphysics: so the answer will "explain ...
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the essence of things, of the fundamental nature of being and the world and the principles that organize the universe.
Is treating causality as constitutive of structured actuality a ...
Is treating causality as constitutive of structured actuality a coherent alternative to first-cause metaphysics? Ask Question Asked 1 month ago Modified 1 month ago
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 - Are there really concepts to which our mind is really ...
Concepts are man-made. Hence an existing concept cannot be precluded to our mind. Of course the concept can be contradictory or useless, but it has been invented by human minds. A different question is: Are there phenomena in our universe where we lack concepts which pose the right questions to investigate and explain the phenomena. An example of the first point could be the theological ...
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 - Viewing properties as relations - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Deep in the recesses of memory, I vaguely recall an argument to the effect that there are no properties but only relations because what we view as properties are really relationships that exist bet...
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