All 20 Uses
metaphysical
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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- Phaedrus' second metaphysical phase was a total disaster.†
Part 3 *metaphysical = about things beyond the physical world, such as existence, reality, or the soul
- His second phase, the metaphysical one, was tenuous and speculative, but this first phase, in which he simply taught rhetoric, was by all accounts solid and pragmatic and probably deserves to be judged on its own merits, independently of the second phase.†
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- Time to get on with the Chautauqua and the second wave of crystallization, the metaphysical one.†
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- He knew the metaphysical trinity of subject, object and Quality would sooner or later have to be interrelated but he was in no hurry about it.†
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- Although there's no logical objection to a metaphysical trinity, a three-headed reality, such trinities are not common or popular.†
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- But first, to give this other specter his walking papers, I should say the following: Perhaps he would have gone in the direction I'm now about to go in if this second wave of crystallization, the metaphysical wave, had finally grounded out where I'll be grounding it out, that is, in the everyday world.†
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- Now, armed with his new time-interrelated metaphysical trinity, he had that romantic-classic Quality split, the one which had threatened to ruin him, completely stopped.†
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- What had previously been asked for was a metaphysical hierarchy that looked like this: _ What he gave them in return was a metaphysical hierarchy that looked like this: _ The Quality he was teaching was not just a part of reality, it was the whole thing.†
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- What had previously been asked for was a metaphysical hierarchy that looked like this: _ What he gave them in return was a metaphysical hierarchy that looked like this: _ The Quality he was teaching was not just a part of reality, it was the whole thing.†
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- He was no longer talking about a metaphysical trinity but an absolute monism.†
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- Phaedrus doubted at the time, however, whether mystical Ones and metaphysical monisms were introconvertable since mystical Ones follow no rules and metaphysical monisms do.†
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- Phaedrus doubted at the time, however, whether mystical Ones and metaphysical monisms were introconvertable since mystical Ones follow no rules and metaphysical monisms do.†
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- His Quality was a metaphysical entity, not a mystic one.†
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- Metaphysical entities are defined.†
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- Although he'd thought of it purely in philosophical terms up to now as metaphysical, he had all along refused to define it.†
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- To discover a metaphysical relationship of Quality and the Buddha at some mountaintop of personal experience is very spectacular.†
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- I think, furthermore, that all his metaphysical mountain climbing did absolutely nothing to further either our understanding of what Quality is or of what the Tao is.†
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- He didn't go far enough into the metaphysical implications of what he was saying to arrive at the solution.†
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- What he neglected to say was that the selection of facts before you "observe" them is "whatever you like" only in a dualistic, subject-object metaphysical system!†
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- When Quality enters the picture as a third metaphysical entity, the preselection of facts is no longer arbitrary.†
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Definitions:
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(metaphysical) relating to things beyond the physical world—such as existence, reality, God, or the soul—and sometimes to ideas that are very abstract or overly theoreticalPeople often use metaphysical for beliefs or questions that go beyond what can be directly tested by science—for example, beliefs about the soul, God, or what ultimately makes something real. These are usually things without material form that you cannot touch or measure.
In philosophy, metaphysical specifically refers to metaphysics, the branch of philosophy that studies being and knowing—questions like "What is real?", "Do we have free will?", or "What does it mean for something to exist?"
In everyday language, someone might call a discussion metaphysical if it feels very abstract or "off in the clouds," as in "They got lost in a metaphysical argument about whether anything is truly knowable." -
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, metaphysical can reference a 17th-century style of British poetry.