Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality. It is often characterized as first philosophy, implying that it...

Modal metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that investigates the metaphysics underlying statements about possible or neccesary statements. Modal logic...

Metaphysics (Greek: τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά, "those after the physics"; Latin: Metaphysica) is one of the principal works of Aristotle, in which he develops...

to metaphysics but the exact relation of these two disciplines is disputed. According to a traditionally influential characterization, metaphysics is...

Look up metaphysics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with the fundamental nature of being and the world...

self-cultivation. Major branches of philosophy are epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Epistemology studies what knowledge is and how to acquire it. Ethics...

In metaphysics, a universal is what particular things have in common, namely characteristics or qualities. In other words, universals are repeatable or...

Metaphysics of presence (German: Metaphysik der Anwesenheit) is a view held by Martin Heidegger in Being and Time that holds the entire history of Western...

Doctor of Metaphysics (PhD, Ph.D., or DMETA; Latin: Metaphysica doctor or doctor Metaphysica), also called a Metaphysical Science Doctorate, is a purported...

The history of metaphysics examines how theories about the most general features of reality ("metaphysics") have developed throughout history. Cognitive...

following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to metaphysics: Metaphysics – traditional branch of philosophy concerned witlh explaining the...

The Metaphysics of Morals (German: Die Metaphysik der Sitten) is a 1797 work of political and moral philosophy by Immanuel Kant. It is also Kant's last...

extraordinary". Obsolete uses include "of, relating to, or dealing with metaphysics". As a noun, the term can mean "a supernatural being", with a particularly...

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785; German: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten; also known as the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Grounding...

In Islamic philosophy, Sufi metaphysics is centered on the concept of وحدة, waḥdah, 'unity' or توحيد, tawhid. Two main Sufi philosophies prevail on this...

The Metaphysics of Quality (MOQ) is a theory of reality introduced in Robert M. Pirsig's philosophical novel, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...

beholder. This includes a number of positions within epistemology and metaphysics which express that a given thing instead exists independently of knowledge...

The Institute of Divine Metaphysical Research (IDMR) is an organization founded in 1931 by Henry Clifford Kinley, author of Elohim the Archetype (Original)...

the world' and λογία (logia) 'study of') is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing with the nature of the universe, the cosmos. The term cosmology...

significant developments in the fields of philosophy of religion, logic, and metaphysics. The high medieval Scholastic period was disparagingly treated by the...

Introduction to Metaphysics may refer to: Introduction to Metaphysics "Introduction to Metaphysics" (essay), a 1903 essay by Henri Bergson Introduction...

In logic and philosophy (especially metaphysics), a property is a characteristic of an object; a red object is said to have the property of redness. The...

logical positivism, Saul Kripke, David Lewis, and others led a revival in metaphysics. Analytic philosophy is often contrasted with continental philosophy...

Feminist metaphysics aims to question how inquiries and answers in the field of metaphysics have supported bias towards race. Feminist metaphysics overlaps...

Heinlein has the main character, Maureen, state that the purpose of metaphysics is to ask questions: "Why are we here?" "Where are we going after we...

Grounding is a topic in metaphysics. Consider an ordinary physical object, such as a table, and the atoms it is made of. Without the atoms, the table...

philosophy, also known as philosophical idealism or metaphysical idealism, is the set of metaphysical perspectives asserting that, most fundamentally, reality...

Wittgenstein, and Martin Heidegger, who called it "the fundamental question of metaphysics". No experiment could support the hypothesis "There is nothing" because...

pág. 10 Peter van Inwagen (May 2018). Metaphysics (4th ed.). Taylor and Francis. ISBN 9780429963575. metaphysics must be distinguished from sacred or revealed...

of free will and determinism which are part of the larger domain of metaphysics. In particular, libertarianism is an incompatibilist position which argues...