Both Uses of
metaphysical
in
Dune
- He wondered it if might be possible that his ruh-spirit had slipped over somehow into the world where the Fremen believed he had his true existence — into the alam al-mithal, the world of similitudes, that metaphysical realm where all physical limitations were removed.†
Book 3
- RUH-SPIRIT: in Fremen belief, that part of the individual which is always rooted in (and capable of sensing) the metaphysical world.†
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Definition:
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(metaphysical) relating to beliefs not proven with the scientific method
or:
without material form or substance
or:
highly abstract and overly theoretical
or:
relating to metaphysics (the philosophical study of being and knowing)