Sample sentences for METAPHYSICS

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Definition

the philosophical study of being and knowing

Ontology is a central branch of metaphysics.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.
Woody Allen -- Annie Hall
Eugene looked at the dull earnest faces, lured from the solid pews of Calvinism to the shadowland of metaphysics.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
"Of course I'm not trained in metaphysics, and there was lots I couldn't quite grasp, but I did feel it was inspiring.
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
'I told you, Winston,' he said, 'that metaphysics is not your strong point.
George Orwell -- 1984
Don't listen to his metaphysics, Barbara.
George Bernard Shaw -- Major Barbara
"A humbug, again!" cried the old gentleman, growing more and more testy at these glimpses of Clifford's metaphysics.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
This sounds a lot like metaphysics to me, but the men in the audience don't seem to take it amiss.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
People would not take his views on art, literature, history, biology, sociology and metaphysics as they took his checks.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
The principle of the vis inertiae, for example, seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Purloined Letter
This is metaphysics, Juan.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
Isabel was fond of metaphysics, but was unable to accompany her friend into this bold analysis of the human personality.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
But Lancelot's mind was not made for metaphysics.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
It was a question pertaining to Plato's metaphysics, which Plato hadn't had the sense to ask of himself.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
I went to school, I went to a university, I studied philosophy, metaphysics, even a little medicine.
Natalie Babbitt -- Tuck Everlasting
In these metaphysics, and in these metaphysics alone, it hardly mattered if she came or not.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
But we've talked enough metaphysics.
Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons
But this banishment to the rocks and echoes no metaphysics can make right or tolerable.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Society and Solitude
There were occasional gatherings of long-coated theatrical natives who discussed metaphysics in English and Bengali, to Mr Lurgan's great edification.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
He had long come to the conclusion that nothing amused him more than metaphysics, but he was not so sure of their efficacy in the affairs of life.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage

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