Sample Sentences formetaphysics (editor-reviewed)
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Ontology is a central branch of metaphysics.metaphysics = the philosophical study of being and knowing
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I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me. (source)
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I went to school, I went to a university, I studied philosophy, metaphysics, even a little medicine. (source)metaphysics = the philosophical study of first principles such as what it means to exist or to know
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And you choose this moment to engage in metaphysics!† (source)
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In these metaphysics, and in these metaphysics alone, it hardly mattered if she came or not.† (source)
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'I told you, Winston,' he said, 'that metaphysics is not your strong point.† (source)
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It was shortly before midnight in early March; I had been entertaining the college intellectuals to mulled claret; the fire was roaring, the air of my room heavy with smoke and spice, and my mind weary with metaphysics.† (source)
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Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday.† (source)
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He, being a humorist, explained to them the method of the celebrated Dickensian essay on Chinese Metaphysics by the gentleman who read an article on China and an article on Metaphysics and combined the information.† (source)
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Kant felt he had done the same thing in metaphysics.† (source)
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This sounds a lot like metaphysics to me, but the men in the audience don't seem to take it amiss.† (source)
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He listened to philosophic discussions, to metaphysics, to esthetics, to impersonal experience.† (source)
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(A whisper): Are you interested in metaphysics† (source)
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It was a question pertaining to Plato's metaphysics, which Plato hadn't had the sense to ask of himself.† (source)
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I thought of Maritain's conclusion that the only solution to the problems of man is the return of charity (in the old embracing sense of caritas, not in the stingy literal sense it has assumed in our language and in our days) and metaphysics.† (source)
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Its effect on me had indeed been so powerful that I had actually speculated—not idly either, but with a moment's seriousness, which rather scared me—on the physical and spiritual consequences to myself were I, too, to indulge in a little homicide tinged with metaphysics, plunge a knife, say, into the breast of some innocent old woman like Yetta Zimmerman.† (source)
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