Both Uses of
metaphysics
in
Atlas Shrugged
- It was a question pertaining to Plato's metaphysics, which Plato hadn't had the sense to ask of himself.†
Chpt 3.2 *metaphysics = the philosophical study of being and knowing
- It is only the metaphysics of a leech that would cling to the idea of a universe where a zero is a standard of identification.†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
the philosophical study of first principles such as what it means to exist or to know