Both Uses of
metaphysical
in
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Some of his reasonings not appearing to me well founded, I wrote a little metaphysical piece in which I made remarks on them.†
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- …carrying to the equal beam, That poises all above;" and from the attributes of God, his infinite wisdom, goodness and power, concluded that nothing could possibly be wrong in the world, and that vice and virtue were empty distinctions, no such things existing, appear'd now not so clever a performance as I once thought it; and I doubted whether some error had not insinuated itself unperceiv'd into my argument, so as to infect all that follow'd, as is common in metaphysical reasonings.†
Definition:
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(metaphysical) relating to beliefs not proven with the scientific method
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without material form or substance
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highly abstract and overly theoretical
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relating to metaphysics (the philosophical study of being and knowing)