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metaphysical
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    Philosophers have wrestled with the metaphysical question of free will for centuries: Are our choices truly our own, or is every decision we make the effect of physical things that happened to us?
    metaphysical = relating to fundamental philosophical problems concerning the nature of reality and human existence
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    Surely it will be judged, and judged severely, in both moral and metaphysical terms.†  (source)
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    What metaphysical rapture could equal it for its substance, its frailty, and its beauty?†  (source)
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    RUH-SPIRIT: in Fremen belief, that part of the individual which is always rooted in (and capable of sensing) the metaphysical world.†  (source)
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    He has to metaphysically transport a large mass over a vast distance in a tiny period of time.†  (source)
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    But to destroy, or lose, a deathless thing—to break bonds stronger than the temporal — was a metaphysical uncoupling all its own, a startling new flavor of despair.†  (source)
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    Metaphysically considered, the matter has a different and a much clearer aspect.†  (source)
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    I was angry with the Rev. Mr. Merrill for making of Owen Meany what Mr. Merrill so often made of Jesus Christ, or of God—a subject for "metaphysical speculation."†  (source)
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    So strongly and metaphysically did I conceive of my situation then, that while earnestly watching his motions, I seemed distinctly to perceive that my own individuality was now merged in a joint stock company of two; that my free will had received a mortal wound; and that another's mistake or misfortune might plunge innocent me into unmerited disaster and death.†  (source)
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    He said he wanted to 'dismiss all this meaningless nonsense which long has dominated metaphysical thought and brought it into disrepute.'†  (source)
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    Not to the crude eye of the homme sensuel Metaphysically it was the Boss, but how was I to know?†  (source)
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    "Oh yes," said Arthur, "I thought that some of the metaphysical imagery was really particularly effective."†  (source)
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    She had said she wanted to talk to him, and it was pleasant to think it was really that—pleasant not so much in any sexual way as metaphysically, if that was not too big a word for it: pleasant to think she might innocently tell him the truth.†  (source)
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