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)metaphysics = philosophy of existence
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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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'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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However, I don't propose to discuss politics, sociology, or metaphysics with you.† (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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In these metaphysics, and in these metaphysics alone, it hardly mattered if she came or not.† (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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Raised in Lubbock, Texas, he studied metaphysics at an ashram, and now lives in Austin.† (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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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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