0 the branch of philosophy that is concerned with the nature of existence, knowledge, and truth -- siêu hình học
a question of metaphysics.
With a background in philosophical logic and metaphysics, his current research interests focus on the theoretical basis of bioethical inquiry.
The very fact that the word "philosophia" has been transferred from the seven liberal arts to natural science and metaphysics is significant.
While data cannot falsify scientific theory, data, however, unlike scientific theory, can falsify metaphysics.
It does not aim to reproduce existing categories of legal thought but to refashion them in the light of a defensible metaphysics or politics.
Attaining these cognitions will require the mastery of both metaphysics and physics, which entails that only a philosopher can attain this perfection.
True enough if philosophy, theology, and metaphysics are not serious academic exercises.
The biblical orientation is, of course, prominent, but in addition he combines it with logic and metaphysics.
Idealism, like any philosophically decent metaphysics, can be logically sustained in the teeth of any evidence, if one isn't scared of wild ideas.
