All 4 Uses of
metaphysics
in
Leaves of Grass
- That I walk up my stoop, I pause to consider if it really be, A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.†
Chpt 3 *
- The Base of All Metaphysics And now gentlemen, A word I give to remain in your memories and minds, As base and finale too for all metaphysics.†
Chpt 5
- And now gentlemen, A word I give to remain in your memories and minds, As base and finale too for all metaphysics.†
Chpt 5
- …woman-friend, (Now buried in an English grave—and this a memory-leaf for her dear sake,) Ended our talk—"The sum, concluding all we know of old or modern learning, intuitions deep, "Of all Geologies—Histories—of all Astronomy—of Evolution, Metaphysics all, "Is, that we all are onward, onward, speeding slowly, surely bettering, "Life, life an endless march, an endless army, (no halt, but it is duly over,) "The world, the race, the soul—in space and time the universes, "All bound as is…†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(metaphysics) the philosophical study of being and knowing