Both Uses of
metaphysics
in
Great Expectations
- This was a case of metaphysics, at least as difficult for Joe to deal with as for me.†
p. 73.5 *metaphysics = the philosophical study of being and knowing
- But Joe took the case altogether out of the region of metaphysics, and by that means vanquished it.†
p. 73.6
Definition:
the philosophical study of first principles such as what it means to exist or to know