Both Uses of
metaphysical
in
Franny and Zooey
- I mention this because I was talking to a rather pompous Orientalist over the weekend, and at one point, during a very deep, metaphysical lull in the conversation, I told him I had a little brother who once got over an unhappy love affair by trying to translate the Mundaka Upanishad into classical Greek.†
Chpt 2.1
- Along with all this, I suppose I'm trying to say that I know how bitterly you resent the years when S. and I were regularly conducting home seminars, and the metaphysical sittings in particular.†
Chpt 2.1 *
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)