0 the branch of philosophy that is concerned with the nature of existence, knowledge, and truth -- siêu hình học
a question of metaphysics.
In effect, he became one of metaphysics' sacrificial lambs.
He holds that when doing metaphysics, we ought to refrain from making judgements about what we do not clearly and distinctly understand.
And finally, it's the practice of the sciences to avoid inflationary metaphysics.
It also generates a critique of any modern metaphysics of the subject as itself a ground - of value, of knowledge, or of the world.
Jevons, like many of his contemporaries, simply dropped the metaphysics of free will from the list of things that successful human science needed to support.
The sufficiency of the metaphysics was judged in turn by whether the constraints it dictated resulted in explanations that were conceivable or plausible.
Many philosophers have objected to the metaphysics of self behind multiple-lives views.
Idealism, like any philosophically decent metaphysics, can be logically sustained in the teeth of any evidence, if one isn't scared of wild ideas.
