| 单词 | metaphysics |
| 例句 | When most people believed in an essentially static and unchanging universe, the question of whether or not it had a beginning was really one of metaphysics or theology. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This sounds a lot like metaphysics to me, but the men in the audience don’t seem to take it amiss. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Some people feel that science should be concerned with only the first part; they regard the question of the initial situation as a matter for metaphysics or religion. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But Lancelot’s mind was not made for metaphysics. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In the tradition of the day, Hutton took an interest in nearly everything, from mineralogy to metaphysics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He listened to philosophic discussions, to metaphysics, to esthetics, to impersonal experience. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But his insistence on the complete irrelevance of "personal responsibility" leads him to rely on some ropey metaphysics and oversimplified science. Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth About Sugar by Robert Lustig – review 2013-01-25T10:00:01Z Modern abstract painting was by then institutionally encrusted with metaphysics. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z More than 60 philosophers will hold forth, in 20-minute bursts, on knotty problems in logic, ethics, metaphysics and religion. Ready Thyself for an All-Night Philosophy Jam 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z “Spiritualism is not an extreme concept at all,” she says, though she prefers to use the term “metaphysics” in reference to practices involving the non-physical world. In the heart of D.C.’s tony Georgetown, a church that communes with the dead 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Barry goes light on the mechanics of his multiversal paradigm, coating the dynamic, suspenseful action with a light frosting of metaphysics. Review | ‘The 22 Murders of Madison May’ is a thrilling ride in every dimension 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z “I used to get a lot of teasing about the metaphysics,” Ms. MacLaine acknowledged. The Past Lives of Shirley MacLaine 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z This metaphysics is sometimes explicit in his novels, often not. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z Me: Robert M Pirsig's philosophical novel about the metaphysics of quality. The awkward years 2011-08-12T22:01:37Z Alchemical books inhabit a subcategory of books on the occult — books on magic, books on astrology, books on witchcraft, metaphysics and alternative-belief systems, including hermeticism, a world view based on Greek and Egyptian writings. The hidden charms of occult books 2011-08-20T23:06:01Z The verbal metaphysics of “King Vamp” work on planetary scales. Perspective | Playboi Carti made the album of the year. Playboi Carti made the album of the year. Playboi Carti made the 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The trilogy is, above all, a statement of belief, and sound and structure are consequently inseparable from its underlying metaphysics. BBCSSO/Volkov ? review 2011-08-15T14:08:29Z I don’t want to explain too much about the science or the metaphysics of the journey. ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ Review: Be Adequate to Each Other 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z She plans to expand its collection to reflect her interests, she said, like metaphysics and photography. Meet the New Old Book Collectors 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z Using the entirety of their bodies to generate rhythm, these beautiful maniacs inhabit a world equally governed by physics and metaphysics, where they heroically blur violence and finesse. The joy of drumming, with Liturgy’s Greg Fox 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z “There’s a whole stereotype of the jazz musician that’s into poetry and reading and metaphysics and all that stuff,” he added. For Kamasi Washington, It’s About Keeping an Open Mind 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z They believe that there is a form of “realism” available to metaphysics, even when mucking in the world of what will always be unknown to human consciousness. HP Lovecraft, pulp philosopher 2013-04-11T20:22:00Z The narrator is a bore whose brain is immune to poetry or metaphysics. The Whispering Muse by Sjón – review 2012-06-22T21:55:06Z He then became a lecturer at the University of Manchester, and established himself as an authority on medieval philosophy and metaphysics. Design: When Desmond Paul Henry Traded His Pen for a Machine 2011-02-27T19:00:05Z A. When I listened to the music, I thought of the Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà, from around World War I, and their vision of metaphysics. Paolo Ventura Designs a ‘Carousel’ 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z So she argues with the narrator about metaphysics and free will; and it's a mark of Spark's lifelong style, this use of fiction to question truth. Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks 2012-08-18T15:00:00Z This is you spending your life contemplating metaphysics. Tom Frank interviews Barbara Ehrenreich: “You’re the anti-Ayn Rand” 2014-04-06T11:00:00Z Indeed, even the word "metaphysics" is making something of a comeback. Editorial 2012-06-04T20:30:01Z Again, there is terra firma as well as metaphysics. Poem of the week: The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins 2010-04-05T09:00:00Z This is what I mean by high thematic ambition: “Titane” is a movie concerned with gender politics, metaphysics, the nature of love and a great deal more. ‘Titane’ Review: Auto Erotic 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z But there is a further leap beyond technical accomplishment — into meaning, history, metaphysics or the wilder zones of the imagination — that the film is too careful, too earthbound, to attempt. Review: ‘First Man’ Takes a Giant Leap for Man, a Smaller Step for Movies 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Detective work became a branch of philosophy and metaphysics. Perspective | ‘Twin Peaks’ made us weird. Was that a good thing or a bad thing? 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z And they are eminently worth revival for their exploration of the metaphysics of the heart and the connection between class and passion. Making a sc?ne: the five French dramatists you should meet 2011-03-21T12:49:22Z Toss in a berserk overload of sex and violence, dissolving bodies, symbols, archetypes, metaphysics and a heavy influence from the tarot and you may have a vague inkling of what goes on in The Incal. Alejandro Jodorowsky's dance on the edge of meaning 2011-01-25T12:27:40Z And yet, she has a way of turning metaphysics to her advantage. ‘Pure Colour’ Seeks Answers About Love, Mortality and God 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z The metaphysics may be complex but the imagery of riding and skating are plain enough. Poem of the week: The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins 2010-04-05T09:00:00Z She speaks fluently and frankly about topics that few Americans, let alone public figures, would touch with anything besides platitudes—theology, Calvinism, metaphysics, and redemption; the nature of grace and sin. Marilynne Robinson talks religion, fear and the American spirit: “The left, at a basic level, lost courage, because they don’t know how to deal with the proclaimed religiosity of the other side” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z “The reshuffling of taste,” Ms. Yi’s narrator tells us, “awaits a new metaphysics.” 2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z To hell with navel-gazing metaphysics, he seemed to say, when life is about inescapable engagement in a world of here and now. A Black Forest trek to German philosopher Heidegger’s writing ‘hut’ 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Its central thesis is that the Biblical authors, no less than Parmenides or Plato, pursued and cultivated a philosophical worldview embracing everything from metaphysics to politics. The Bible goes Greek 2012-09-30T12:00:00Z It was held true, however, by its fierce metaphysics and by the wonderfully contradictory figure of the monster. A Literary Dinner Party? Anne Enright Would Prefer Lunch 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Ona, the most idealistic of the set, meanwhile muses over the metaphysics of forgiveness: "Is forgiveness that's forced upon us true forgiveness?" After abuse,"Women Talking" challenges the misuse and metamorphosis of forgiveness 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z Along with an increasing number of scientists, I argue that science should not be equated with materialist metaphysics. 10,000 germ species per human 2012-06-13T17:20:00Z "The law, Mr. Strickland, is not an exercise in metaphysics. But an alley fight." 'Race's' incendiary topic defused by Mamet's underwritten characters 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Public Schools teacher, says he sought a dispensation from his order after St. Francis of Assisi appeared at the foot of his bed and telepathically told him to take classes in metaphysics. In the heart of D.C.’s tony Georgetown, a church that communes with the dead 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z But for all of the surrealism in “Amerika,” whose runic metaphysics helped give rise to the adjective “Kafkaesque,” the manuscript doesn’t begin to match the genuinely American phantasmagoria of “Boom Town.” Oklahoma City, the Ultimate ‘Boom Town,’ Rendered Vivid and Surreal 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z We don’t know if the explanation is psychological or supernatural, or whether Weerasethakul is dabbling in science fiction, metaphysics or some of each. Is Moviegoing Undemocratic? 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Mumler’s faith in his “art” is tied to grief, so the men debate not only fakery, but also religion and metaphysics. Review | History meets mystery in Arlitia Jones’s slightly spooky drama ‘Summerland’ 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z It’s a capacious book, moving freely from Walter Benjamin to the TV soap “Dynasty”; from the “metaphysics” of Marie Kondo to Heidegger’s consideration of the question “What is a thing?” After Losing His Parents, an Author Wonders: Who and What Is Real? 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z De Palma has spent a lifetime exploring the metaphysics of recording technology and of scopophilia, showing us how observation can deceive as much as it reveals. Review | Brian De Palma and Susan Lehman deliver a silly, fun pastiche of hard-boiled crime fiction 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z The show, presented by Dutch Kills Theater Company, tries to mix mundane office tasks and metaphysics. When the Critic Is Also the Star. And the Audience. 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z So quantum physics — quite unlike any other realm of science — has acquired its own metaphysics, a shadow discipline tagging along like the tail of a comet. What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z If anything, McDowell is as intrigued with the metaphysics of what might be possible as he is with the realities of ordinary existence. With 'The One I Love,' a relationship gets trippy 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z When Boeckel reappears, he calls himself the Creator and speaks long and darkly of magic mirrors and metaphysics: “The world is nothing but the mirror of our own subjectivity.” Book review: Metaphysical novella ‘The Creator’ by Mynona blurs the boundary between dream and reality 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Central to Taino metaphysics was “zemi,” a spiritual power that circulated from gods and ancestors into the natural environment: the sea, the forest, the stones. The Art of Caribbean Exchange, in Gold, Stone or Hardwood 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z For the next Russian Art Week in November, we’ll present an exhibition and sale around metaphysics, demonstrating Russia’s presence in this movement. A Russian Art Dealer Sets Sights on London 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z A heady concept from a heady person; Adriana described her “dream date” as a professor of metaphysics and epistemology who is also a Marxist. Date Lab: He was nervous that he would come off as ‘a weird guy’ 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z But its scope is so wide, ranging across subjects of morality, metaphysics and even marine biology, it can’t help speaking eloquently to our current turmoil. At South Coast Rep, a stunning, gravity-defying stab at 'Moby Dick' 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Of course, people may also be weak-willed about starting to read about metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. Review | A new book for ‘those who don’t want millions, but an answer to their questions’ 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z The cosmic clockwork of “His Dark Materials,” with its multiverses and metaphysics, becomes grounded in this new novel. Philip Pullman’s ‘The Book of Dust’ is an enthralling prequel to His Dark Materials 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Sabato was also a prolific essayist who wrote about metaphysics, politics and tango. Argentine writer Sabato dies, 99 2011-04-30T17:27:36Z Her way with metaphor implies a metaphysics, in her case a metaphysics informed by her Calvinism: History is a fabric. Democracy’s Fierce Defender 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Hamlet’s ghost is talking about purgatory, a place that exists only in Catholic metaphysics. Dr. Eben Alexander’s so-called after-life 2012-11-26T16:00:00Z His bookshelves are organized into categories: metaphysics, theology, biology, history, law. The Sage of Yale Law 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z It’s a time-honored trick: deploying metaphysics as a stealth laundering of tactics. Do guns or people kill people? 2013-03-06T13:12:00Z It is said to tackle "the intersection of science and metaphysics". Stoppard struggles to write play 2013-10-16T11:18:46Z Norrington is strong on the work's metaphysics, on the almost Shakespearean sense that disturbance in nature is linked to convulsions in the souls of men. Idomeneo 2010-08-23T14:15:00Z Most of the entries border on what might be called musical metaphysics: articulation, chance, composition, continuity, deduction, duration, form, idea, language, material, notation, perception, rhythm, structure, succession, theme, timbre, tradition, variation. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z One of the things that really intrigued me about the book was how you intertwine biology and metaphysics all the time. Tom Frank interviews Barbara Ehrenreich: “You’re the anti-Ayn Rand” 2014-04-06T11:00:00Z In works such as “After Babel,” “The Poetry of Thought” and “The Death of Tragedy,” Steiner drew upon what he called his “utter passion for scripture and the Classics, for poetry and metaphysics.” Eminent man of letters George Steiner dead at age 90 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The Faust Symphony of 1854 probes the psychology and metaphysics of Goethe's great drama. Top of the Proms 2011 2011-07-07T20:30:02Z Drawing on his own experiments with peyote and his growing understanding of metaphysics, he created an image that exactly defines the Grateful Dead in performance in 1968. The greatest ever album covers 2012-07-06T16:00:14Z There was something missing, she concluded, from the book’s metaphysics as promulgated by the headmistress, “an incredibly powerful, dominant and self-obsessed person who is ranting about having no self.” Shelley Jackson, Author and Advocate of the Monstrous 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z The scope of his work involves words and movement and certainly a kind of metaphysics. Review: Cecil Taylor’s Mysteries Don’t Resolve at the 88th Key 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z My belief in science doesn’t dispel my interests and beliefs in spirituality and metaphysics. Thurston Moore: ‘I was a nerd and a dork at school’ 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z The first half of the book is primarily about truth and knowledge, matters of metaphysics and epistemology. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z The metaphysics and emotions surrounding gardens are not so easy to parse. Art Review: ‘Chinese Gardens,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-08-16T21:59:52Z From my point of view, the problem with that is that it sounds more like metaphysics than science. Why are we obsessed with robots? 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z It attracted fans of psychedelics, and metaphysics, who came to trip, pray and admire the Greys’ art. A Sanctuary for Psychedelic Art Opens in the Hudson Valley 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z In Mr. Holt’s personal metaphysics, a free-range nightly debauch is yet another excellent stay against nothingness. Books of The Times: ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-02T18:37:46Z He doesn't drink beer and with his friends he talks earnest politics, mind-melting physics and extreme metaphysics. Back to the Hugos: The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin 2011-03-29T08:59:41Z That movie, which would fit inside this one twice, stripped away the usual sci-fi metaphysics, presenting space travel as an occasion for quiet wonder and noisy crisis management. Review: Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar,’ with Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z But the physics and metaphysics, including speculation on the nature of identity, are always subordinate to the narrative tension. Review 2010-10-06T23:43:00Z She sings about ancient history, metaphysics, teachings from Indian scripture. Playlist: Albums From Mary Stallings, Black Breath and Miguel 2012-03-30T19:29:10Z In terms of metaphysics — the realm to which Mr. Carey seems most naturally drawn — this is also a book about grief, loss, madness, creation and the difference between living and artificial existence. Books of The Times: ?The Chemistry of Tears,? a Novel by Peter Carey 2012-05-21T03:47:19Z Set in near-future Phnom Penh, Cambodia, “Karmalink” belongs to the branch of science fiction preoccupied with spirituality and metaphysics: Where do we come from and what makes us who we are? Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Ford, after all, is the author of an essay on the metaphysics of punching someone in the face, which includes these lines: Frank Bascombe’s Seafaring Foil 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z And like so much in astrophysics, it gets us wondering as much about metaphysics as physics. Perspective | The black hole image is beautiful and profound. It’s also very blurry. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Her purpose was not, she argued, to show complicity with the “metaphysics of continuity” -- what could this mean? A witch hunt or a quest for justice: An insider’s perspective on disgraced academic Avital Ronell 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z “Why the dead matter”, says Mr Laqueur, “...is not grounded in knowledge, science, morality, or metaphysics but in deep structures of intuition and feeling.” Dust to dust 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z To be part of the “Toy Story” universe is to be intimately acquainted with the metaphysics of the commodity form. ‘Lightyear’ Review: Infinite Buzz 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z In about an hour and a half, it somehow encompasses neuroscience, metaphysics, econometrics, philosophy of mind, social-exchange theory. Tom Stoppard, Always Tackling ‘The Hard Problem’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z If this were a graduate seminar in metaphysics, David might stand a better chance. J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Sees the World as Don Quixote Does 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z In one of his more benign moods Lévi-Strauss equated existentialism with “shopgirl metaphysics.” Books of The Times: A French Thinker Who Crossed Continents and Cultures 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z The documentary’s account of the song’s fate, indebted to Alan Light’s book “The Holy or the Broken,” is a fascinating study in the mechanics and metaphysics of pop-culture memory. ‘Hallelujah’ Review: From Leonard Cohen to Cale to Buckley to Shrek 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z My name tells stories of metaphysics, power, exploitation and subjugation. What’s in my name: tales that cross continents and generations 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z As we ate outside in the courtyard, he proceeded to go into further detail, defining metaphysics as a study of the fundamental nature of reality. L.A. Affairs: My date with a genius became a lecture series with no escape in sight 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Hall founded the Philosophical Research Society in 1934 to promote the study of philosophy, comparative religion, mysticism and metaphysics in Los Angeles and beyond. 'We're not a cult!' A mysterious L.A. society reinvents itself for modern 'truth seekers' 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z His first role at the University of Naples was to lecture on logic and metaphysics. A Defiant Volcanologist Survived 5 Eruptions while Living on Mount Vesuvius 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Such a claim and observation are not matters of metaphysics; we know this empirically from public health researchers and other experts. Televising Trump's trials will hurt — that's why it must happen 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z He practices a cinema of heady ideas, mind-churning metaphysics and rug-pulling narrative gamesmanship — not an intuitive fit with the more traditional conventions of the Hollywood biopic. Review: Christopher Nolan's gripping, despairing 'Oppenheimer' ponders history and the future 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z “They’re like the fruit flies of metaphysics,” says Sorensen, who also wasn’t involved in the study. Do We Actually ‘Hear’ Silence? 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z They displayed little interest in metaphysics, the philosophical study of the nature of existence. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “There’s some metaphysics, or luck, or secrets that we don’t know,” Mr. Wang said. The Shining Promise and Dashed Dreams of China’s Live Shopping Craze 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z This marriage of mechanics and metaphysics makes Calder’s sculptures vehicles for reflection and joy, Shirley said. Former Microsoft exec and wife donate $200M worth of art to Seattle Art Museum 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z As an art form in which human beings are incarnated, drama is a natural conduit for metaphysics and ontology. Commentary: Richard Gilman, the complicated subject of a new memoir, helped raise the bar for theater criticism 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, theories linking the mind to quantum effects lack empirical evidence; they belong more to metaphysics than physics. Can Quantum Mechanics Quell the Holiday Blues? 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z “I’m just not very good at metaphysics,” Justice Clarence Thomas told Mr. Phillips. Justices Debate State Law Opening Courts to Suits Against Corporations 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z In the film “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” a prominent journalist grapples with work, family, metaphysics and Mexican history. Your Friday Briefing: A COP 27 Preview 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Even in the academy, fellow polymaths were bedazzled by the breadth of his boundless ruminations into metaphysics, modal logic, recursion theory, identity materialism and the ontological nature of numbers. Saul Kripke, Philosopher Who Found Truths in Semantics, Dies at 81 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Areas of specialization can be grouped into the following fields: historical traditions; metaphysics and epistemology; science, logic, and mathematics; and value theory. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z I mean, who fires a coach during training camp — unless something happens, and not an argument about metaphysics. LOVERRO: An unfortunately Commanders-esque start to the season 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z “In between reflecting on his bumpy road to success — and hit series ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ — David shares his thoughts on everything from metaphysics to parenthood. Larry David has HBO pull 'The Larry David Story' documentary at the last minute 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z After enduring so much gloomy transatlantic paralysis, I found Rebecca Mead’s new memoir, “Home/Land,” about the metaphysics of repatriation, a timely and powerful read. Review: For expats during COVID, what does home even mean? A new memoir sheds light 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z When it comes to our metaphysics — our pictures of the world — we pride ourselves on a taste for austerity, or as W.V.O. Opinion | Diet Culture Is Unhealthy. It’s Also Immoral. 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z The fields of science, logic, and mathematics include research into contemporary symbolic logic as well as interdisciplinary work in the philosophy of mathematics and the sciences; these areas are closely related to metaphysics and epistemology. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Part of me finds the relationship doctrine, and especially Gefter’s you-centered metaphysics, beautiful and consoling, a welcome alternative to mindless materialism. Is There a Thing, or a Relationship between Things, at the Bottom of Things? 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z That's as much an observation based on emotion, psychology, feelings and metaphysics as an empirical one. CNN's Peter Bergen on the "dotted line" from Osama bin Laden to Donald Trump 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z So are fireside discussions about everything from dinner plans to the nature of existence and metaphysics. New Mexico forest draws crowd for annual ‘Rainbow Gathering’ 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z The script doesn’t reincarnate so much as it recycles, drawing freely on the nested realities of “Inception,” the free-your-mind metaphysics of “The Matrix” and the amnesiac-assassin revelations of the Jason Bourne movies. Review: There are infinitely better things to watch than 'Infinite' 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z These traditions furnished shared beliefs about ethics, metaphysics, and other realms of philosophical inquiry. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z He enjoyed talking about African history and love and metaphysics, describing himself as “a free flying soul, not bound by his physical body.” The Tragedy of Harry Uzoka 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Clad in black like a depressed graduate student steeped in Foucault, Hamlet contemplates the morality and metaphysics of revenge. Review: 'Yorick' is 'Hamlet' with haunting puppets and a smoky Malbec voice. It's ingenious 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Similarly, I would categorize the shimmer not as a physics but a metaphysics — a portal to a liminal space where human potential and the transformational power of language are put to the test. Joan Didion's new collection of old essays holds the key to her 'shimmer' 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z “With this movie, it was about getting past the expositional elements, getting past the metaphysics and mechanics. You don’t want the audience to get ahead of the loop.” Storytelling that twists, bends, even confuses. Welcome to this trippy season 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z These generalizations point to a Native American metaphysics that is based on animate processes that are complementary, interactive, and integrated. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z I was reminded of a line from Kurt Vonnegut, whose work this movie sometimes recalls in its cheeky approach to metaphysics: “I am a human being, not a human doing.” Review: It's not quite 'Inside Out,' but Pixar's metaphysical comedy 'Soul' will lift your spirits 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Those who are new to Tarr’s work may wonder at first why a seemingly straightforward romantic drama has been freighted with so much atmosphere, so much metaphysics, so much — well, cinema. Best 2020 double feature: Two favorite discoveries in film's toughest year 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z They built barricades out of thick tomes on early-19th-century German philosophy and Indian metaphysics. The contested legacy of the anti-fascist International Brigades 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z For Christopher Nolan, whose films build their conceptual architecture around the metaphysics of movies themselves, it’s kind of one and the same. Review: In ‘Tenet,’ a time-bending thriller for bended times 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Western readers should take care not to reduce Samkhya’s metaphysics and epistemology to the various dualistic systems seen in, for example, the account of the soul in Plato’s Phaedo or in Christian metaphysics more generally. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The new work is an “important step forward in the field of experimental metaphysics,” says quantum physicist Aephraim Steinberg of the University of Toronto, who was not involved in the study. This Twist on Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox Has Major Implications for Quantum Theory 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z Here, former experimental physicist Jim Baggott says quantum mechanics is “completely mad”, but wrestles expertly with its history and current state, integrating physics with metaphysics. What we owe to fire, home working vs the driverless car, and survival of the unfittest: Books in brief 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z In seeking answers, Christians imported concepts of predestination from the metaphysics of Plato and Aristotle with mixed — and sometimes disastrous — results. Review: In Percival Everett's three-version "Telephone," it's always the dealer's choice 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Marlowe is also the only playwright to use the word “metaphysics” or any variants: “metaphysical” appears in The Shrew, and “metaphisickes” in Faustus. Ay, to the proof ... did Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew have two authors? 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, which describes humanity as prisoners within a cave reacting to shadows on the wall, might be read in terms of how it contributes to debates in epistemology or metaphysics. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z So, the question of free will boils down to one of metaphysics: are our felt volitional states reducible to something outside and independent of consciousness? Yes, Free Will Exists 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z There are too many different kinds of mystical experiences to construct a coherent metaphysics from it, Horgan argues. Mysticism and the Mind-Body Problem: Other Views 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z An irony lurks within efforts to create a mystical metaphysics. Can Mysticism Help Us Solve the Mind-Body Problem? 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z And in metaphysics, questions such as “is the universe infinite” can now, at least arguably, be understood as scientific questions. Beyond Physicalism 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z The fields of science, logic, and mathematics include research into contemporary symbolic logic as well as interdisciplinary work in the philosophy of mathematics and the sciences; these areas are closely related to metaphysics and epistemology. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Her poetry, which navigates the syntax and metaphysics of death and immortality, transcends its moment. Perspective | We keep revising our idea of Emily Dickinson. We may never get her right. 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z In my view, the attempt to take exceptional experiences seriously - as we tried to do during this symposium - does not imply constructing a metaphysics that accounts for all such phenomena as individual experiences. Mysticism and the Mind-Body Problem: Other Views 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z The immense diversity of mystical experiences thwarts efforts to construct a mystical metaphysics. Can Mysticism Help Us Solve the Mind-Body Problem? 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z His supporters, though, tend to back him less for metaphysics than for rude practicality. Whose Soul Is Joe Biden Fighting For? 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Here, it is evident how Daoists draw lessons about the study and mastery of morality from their understanding of metaphysics. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z So the exact status of Jackson’s “censorhood” is something that is not easy to describe or resolve; it is the sort of ontological puzzle some of us remember encountering in college metaphysics classes. Opinion | Censuring might work, but impeachment is more permanent 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z That Peebles has made numerous contributions to cosmology—theories that have helped transform the field from metaphysics to physics—is indisputable. Jim Peebles Richly Deserved his Nobel Prize 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Nietzsche’s 1878 book, “Human, All Too Human,” his inaugural assault on Wagner and Romantic metaphysics, hammers away at the word Mitleid, considering it an instrument of weakness. Nietzsche’s Eternal Return 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z How to tell this story that will examine the metaphysics of being and existence, destiny, fate, free will, love, immigration, class, race and revenge? How to write a Booker contender – by Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and others 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Samkhya a dualist approach in Hindu metaphysics that views the universe as composed of pure consciousness and matter, which undergoes an evolutionary process. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Despite an interest in metaphysics, Williamson “had no hippie in her, and she wasn’t radical during the late sixties and seventies, when it was totally wonderful to be a radical,” Obst said. Marianne Williamson Wants Politics to Enter the New Age 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Conversation spiralled, with users making arguments about Cartesian metaphysics and quoting Socrates. The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z For Martin Heidegger, the will to power was the last gasp of metaphysics—an attempt to capture the “basic character of all beings,” which Heidegger wishes to supplant with his post-metaphysical idea of being-in-the-world. Nietzsche’s Eternal Return 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z He began lecturing the doctors on the principles of metaphysics, as suggested by Mary Baker Eddy. Dying the Christian Science way: the horror of my father’s last days 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z As you will discover, the topic of metaphysics is far-reaching and broaches many questions. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z People usually think that metaphysics—the study of existence and the ultimate nature of reality—is a purely philosophical subject. A little-known quantum mechanics theorem explains the nature of all reality 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z It bears a much better discussion than the thread has given it so far, so please let’s talk about what’s interesting and stay off the metaphysics. The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z By physics, the Stoics were referring to the study of all the natural sciences, as well as metaphysics—the understanding of how the world hangs together. How I learned to stop worrying and rediscover the ancient philosophy of Stoicism 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z “The metaphysics of the left never cease to amaze me,” he said. Sorry is the easiest word – but should Democrats stop their apology tour? 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Naturalism, in its simplest form, is the view that meaningful inquiry includes only the physical and the laws governing physical entities and rejects the priority placed on reason assumed within metaphysics. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Thus a new field of study has come into being: not just physics, not even experimental physics, but experimental metaphysics. A little-known quantum mechanics theorem explains the nature of all reality 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z He removed the reference to metaphysics from his comment. The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Next to those scuzzily virtuosic cinematic death trips, “Climax” is almost a gentle, even tame affair, a movie of simpler pleasures and less tortured metaphysics. Review: Hellish dance musical 'Climax' is good for Gaspar Noé, but maybe not as good for you 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z They’re turning to variations on religious metaphysics and often, unfortunately, forms of ethnic and religious exclusion. How Governments React to Climate Change: An Interview with the Political Theorists Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Ontology a field within metaphysics dedicated to the study of being. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The consumer is left stranded in a sea of meaninglessness, paralyzed by the arcane metaphysics of the branding, and wishing for a simpler time when words meant something. I can’t believe Asus is serious with these motherboard names 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z They believed metaphysics conflicted with their fundamentalist Mormon beliefs. The Mormon polygamists who believe Missouri is the 'promised land' 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z As Bishop-Stall tests remedies that include intravenous drips and voodoo, his practical quest leads to a kind of metaphysics of the hangover. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z I hope most readers are still with me, in spite of the mundane mathematical metaphysics so far. Proofs and Guarantees 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Yet they are considered to have contributed significantly to the history of philosophy and metaphysics. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Having myself been a student of moral philosophy in a northern university, I entered on my scientific career full of hopes that metaphysics would prove a useful Mentor, if not quite a science. The Business of Slavery and Sugar in Cuba, 1868 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z One of these is a full-on horror movie, as patently unbelievable as it is genuinely terrifying, full of cheap shocks and torturous metaphysics and sporting perhaps the most annoying title of the year. Review: 'The House With a Clock in its Walls' offers creaky, freaky haunted-mansion fun 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z All the while, the marooned man is in a frenzy of survival and disbelief, “crying, laughing, naked,” while dropping knotty metaphysics: “Philosophy germinates from loneliness. And from fear.” Sara Gallardo's work has finally been published in English. It's about time. 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z The shifting timelines, free-range metaphysics, proliferating story lines and existential riddles of the last nine episodes collided rather than unfurled in “The Passenger.” After that wild 'Westworld' finale, the robots aren't the only ones disoriented 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Using the acorn and the oak, describe what happens as a being moves from becoming to actuality within Aquinas’s metaphysics. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z It is a kind of metaphysics which seems deeply a part of science-fiction’s attraction. '2001: A Space Odyssey' still blowing minds 50 years later 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z We're getting to the heart of Kanye's metaphysics here, and it bears an astonishing connection to that of the ancient Greek philosopher, Plato. A philosopher rates Kanye West's tweets 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z The book is a romance, a thriller and a meditation on geopolitical conundrums, ideology, science and metaphysics. ‘Submergence’: Once lovers part, romantic thriller sinks 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The grody metaphysics finally surface nine minutes into the show, when Prince’s voice is piped into the stadium and his image is projected onto a towering, billowing scrim. Review | This is how Justin Timberlake lost the Super Bowl 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z Their metaphysics suggests a view of the world that recognizes the dynamic connections and interdependence of all things that exist. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Now, as Guicciardini shows, we are able to see Newton as a brilliant problem-solver eager to crack complexities — in mathematics, metaphysics and alchemy. Isaac Newton in the round, a migratory road trip and the downside of positive thinking: Books in brief 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z I’ll leave you with one of my favorite quotes on time, allowing the late, great thinker Douglas Adams to bring metaphysics full circle to freelancing: “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime double so.” Review | Best time to have surgery, get sentenced by a judge, get married 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z This intellectual powerhouse developed the scientific world view known as logical empiricism — an assertion of the pre-eminence of scientific knowledge and a rejection of metaphysics. How Viennese scientists fought the dogma, propaganda and prejudice of the 1930s But try as you might to lose yourself in “Coco,” or at least pause long enough to ponder its metaphysics, too often you might find yourself hindered by the movie’s breathless velocity. Pixar's 'Coco' sings a high-spirited but sometimes faltering tune 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z This is particularly the case within metaphysics, the branch of philosophy that studies reality, being, causation, and related abstract concepts and principles. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z I like my philosophy pure and formal; not in the analytical sense but rather in the style of rigorous metaphysics. Opinion | The Anxiety of John Stuart Mill 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z From The Man in the High Castle on, he used his work not only to explore sophisticated ideas of theoretical physics and metaphysics but what he experienced. The Philip K Dick book I love most… 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z But he has his own absurdist patois of banality and metaphysics, wrapped around a muted critique of how detached Americans are from each other and how we can’t come to grips with mortality. Review: ‘The Realistic Joneses’ poses big questions but offers few answers 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z In all the complexities of theology and metaphysics that this topic raises, I am utterly confident of one thing: No one has ever asked, “What is Bernie Sanders’s view on this?” Opinion | Bernie Sanders’s crusade against . . . believing in hell? 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z As you will see later in this chapter, this same concept—a single, invisible, unchanging substance expressing itself through forms to give rise to the material world—is the key principle in Plato’s metaphysics. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z "Whenever you get two people interpreting the same data in different ways," he said, "that's metaphysics." Did Thomas Kuhn Help Elect Donald Trump? 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Occasionally metaphysics invades politics, to the surprise even of metaphysicians like me. Let’s Get Metaphysical About Trump and the ‘Post-Truth Era’ 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z By the close of this short lyric, disconnected deep thoughts are symptoms, not expressions, of his late-on-the-rent metaphysics: Bill Knott’s Anti-Career of Guerrilla Poetry 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Glocks ruling in Florida, issued this week, passed from the mere metaphysics of gun ownership into a special land of the loony known only to the National Rifle Association. Sanity from the Courts on Gun Control in a Time of Trump 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z With the doctrine of forms, Plato may be said to combine the metaphysics of Parmenides with that of Heraclitus into a metaphysical dualism. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Obama does subscribe to a civic metaphysics, but it is centered instead on the bonds between people and the perennial American ability to change. The Increasingly Lonely Hope of Barack Obama 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z The human pursuit of meaning does not have to be grounded in metaphysics, despite our efforts to make it so. Can Evolution Have a ‘Higher Purpose’? 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z The strip’s philosophical bent and eclectic mix of languages reflected Herriman’s education at St. Vincent’s College in Los Angeles, which included Latin, Greek, grammar, elocution, metaphysics and Catholicism. ‘Krazy’: the secret worlds of George Herriman, creator of Krazy Kat 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z There I was - an atheist who liked to spew Ayn Rand at any given opportunity studying morals and metaphysics in a Catholic college. Cat Hulbert: How I got rich beating men at their own game - BBC News 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z His works ranged widely across all the main areas of philosophy, including logic, metaphysics, and ethics. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z It’s simply the franchise’s obsessions — themes like royal dynasties, New Age metaphysics and introspective voyaging — laid across a naturalist’s canvas. Review: 'Final Fantasy XV' Is Shockingly Excellent 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Friedman’s approach was descriptive, but he kept slipping into ethics and metaphysics: the new world he described turned out to be both inevitable and for the best. Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z So, brace yourself for a surfeit of dubious sociology and worse metaphysics. Why all the love for the Chicago Cubs’ woes? 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z But without such an image, a theory can seem little more than metaphysics. In retrospect: A New System of Chemical Philosophy : Nature : Nature Research 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z At the same time, religious centers of learning were developing their own philosophies of metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z If she has a metaphysics, it’s a very bleak one. Joy Williams’s Refractory Brilliance 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Her conversations with authors like Graham Hancock, Daniel Pinchbeck, Amy Lansky and other notables illuminate the interconnected themes of Carl Jung, metaphysics, indigenous wisdom and stunning street art featured in the film. New York Today: Documentaries About Our City 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z In an interview about Braid a few years ago, you steered into a weedy conversation about metaphysics and the nature of scientific inquiry. Interview With 'The Witness' Creator Jonathan Blow 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z “The script is like the B-movie world meets this kind of metaphysics.” Anton Yelchin of ‘Star Trek’ reboot acts in neo-noir ‘The Driftless Area’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z In fact, the relationship between mind and brain is one of the central problems of metaphysics, known as the “mind-body problem,” which might just as well be called the “mind-brain problem.” Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Had Allis started his experiments in the nineteen-eighties trying to pin down words like “identity” and “memory,” he might have found himself lost in a maze of metaphysics. The Science of Identity and Difference 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The more I read, the more convinced I became that Foos’s stilted metaphysics were his way of attempting to elevate his disturbing pastime into something of value. The Voyeur’s Motel 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z "It’s safe to say that nexus of science and metaphysics is a place we’re interested in looking at," said Manson. 'Orphan Black' co-creators discuss going back to the beginning for Season 4 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Martin says Harris deserves international acclaim for reaching "another level of the metaphysics of landscape." Happy feet, happy eyes: Steve Martin is guest curator of an exhibition at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts devoted to Canadian modernist Lawren Harris 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z But a similar strategy may also be useful in metaphysics or epistemology. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Martin says Harris deserves international acclaim for reaching “another level of the metaphysics of landscape.” Steve Martin is guest curator at Boston art exhibition 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z We are not the same political people anymore, no longer bounded to conventional metaphysics. Donald Trump was supposed to lose the latest debate. Far from it | Jeb Lund 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Unlike last year’s “Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare,” which told a tedious parable about a private military corporation trying to profit from endless war, “Black Ops 3” dives into the metaphysics of paranoia. ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 3′ is a carnival of guns and confusion 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z People think it is about technology, but it is really about religion, people turning to metaphysics to cope with the human condition. The Doomsday Invention 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z For instance, when considering issues in metaphysics, you may believe that parts of experience—like consciousness, God, or free will—cannot be explained by the natural sciences. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Mao and Kissinger, Grandin writes, “shared a mutual appreciation of German metaphysics.” Kissinger: The Dr. Frankenstein of foreign affairs, or just self-promoter? 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z A philosophy major will come to understand how the metaphysics of Plato and Aristotle helped set the stage for the Enlightenment. Cutting the liberal arts undermines our cultural traditions 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z The forging of a successful rowing partnership is as much a matter of metaphysics as regular physics. In Baltimore, bridging trouble on the waters 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z That designation is more aptly applied to pure-thought variants like those that comprise cosmological metaphysics. Physicists Are Philosophers, Too 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z We can see Aristotle’s influence in the metaphysics and epistemology of Aquinas as well as in his ethics and political philosophy. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The 18th-Century philosopher, whose work on ethics and metaphysics, heavily influenced Western thought, spent his life in what was then Koenigsberg. Graffiti attack on philosopher Kant 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z “Just as some scholars spend their lives consumed by the metaphysics of literature or history or philosophy or theology — you name it — I came to spend mine in search of the metaphysics of play.” Brian Sutton-Smith, Scholar of What’s Fun, Dies at 90 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z The forging of a successful rowing partnership is as much a matter of metaphysics as regular physics. In Baltimore, bridging trouble on the waters 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z For cosmological purposes, armchair metaphysics is dead, supplanted by the more informed philosophy of physics, and few but theologians would disagree. Physicists Are Philosophers, Too 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z On a summary level, one possible definition is that metaphysics is the field of philosophy concerned with identifying that which is real. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z For me, these different approaches to King are ultimately complementary; the question of what the civil rights movement would have been, absent King, is ultimately a question of historical metaphysics, since what happened, happened. Did a Mediocre Letter of Recommendation for Martin Luther King, Jr. Change the Course of History? 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z I went over to his house for the first time one evening and found it piled floor to ceiling with strange books on metaphysics and Native American history. Living With Schizophrenia: Coffee and Friends 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z An exploration of the rich connections between computer code, logic, linguistics, aesthetics and metaphysics. Best Selling Science Books 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z First, as already emphasized, those who promote the reality of the mathematical objects of their models are dabbling in platonic metaphysics whether they know it or not. Physicists Are Philosophers, Too 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The relationship between mind and brain is one of the central problems of metaphysics, known as the “mind- body problem.” Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z I refer not just to their Christian perspective but to their metaphysics of the heart, the divine love of creation. On The Climate Summit: Why Conservatives Too Need To Own Their Love Of The Earth 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z The problem is that so much of the story's energy goes into the elaborate mechanics and metaphysics of its counterfactual plot that the actual animus against Thatcher, when it comes out, seems rote and under-imagined. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher review – Hilary Mantel's new collection 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z It was a travesty of metaphysics, rather than an inspiring upset or a breath of fresh air. The U.S. Open’s Federer-less Final 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Whatever may be the branches of philosophy that deserve the esteem of academics and the public, metaphysics is not among them. Physicists Are Philosophers, Too 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Islamic philosophers published major works in metaphysics, epistemology, and natural philosophy. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z In the realm of metaphysics these spiritual methodologies are essential. Ramadan, Day 11: Faith and Reason 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z This theorem has become central to both metaphysics and quantum information science. Physics: Bell’s theorem still reverberates 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Indeed, Bell’s theorem has become synonymous with the most puzzling meeting of metaphysics and physics that science has to offer. Quanundrum 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z If there were an empirical way to determine ultimate reality, it would be physics, not metaphysics; but it seems there isn't. Physicists Are Philosophers, Too 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Like Ibn Sina and Aristotle, his work ranged across a number of domains, from metaphysics and logic through medicine and natural philosophy. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “There are no metaphysics here,” Charukhin said, as actors carried on an elaborate debate about its qualities for an audience of reasonably entranced high school students. Dwelling on goodness in Russian history I was, and continue to be, struck by the power of the metaphysics and the visionary quality of his theology, which no one seems to have any awareness of. Q&‥038;A: Marilynne Robinson on guns, gay marriage and Calvinism Halfway through an hour-long conversation with Bernard Hopkins and boxing's great philosopher is preaching his own branch of metaphysics: life, the universe and everything. 'I'll play it out until the song is over' 2014-04-17T16:01:03Z All these models have to do is describe observations, and they don’t need metaphysics to do that. Physicists Are Philosophers, Too 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z In doing so, these thinkers studied the works of classical and medieval philosophy while advancing ideas about metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics that this text examines in the chapters that are to come. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z In a previous post, I commented on an anomalous riff by Holmes–who usually dwells with autistic obsession on crime-solving and shuns metaphysics—in “The Naval Treaty” on whether a rose is evidence of God. Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Pointless Universe 2014-04-07T14:43:29Z Preserved on vellum manuscripts, written in coded medieval Latin and enveloped in unfamiliar metaphysics it may be, but the science of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries constitutes a crucial stage in the history of thought. History: A medieval multiverse 2014-03-12T18:50:34.997Z We had met in the bar of the Holiday Inn, where Ladyman was staying while he was in town for a conference on metaphysics. Schrodinger’s Rats and The Search for Ultimate Reality [Excerpt] 2014-01-31T15:00:00Z Krauss leveled his most scathing criticisms at the philosophy of science, and we suggest that it would have been more constructive had he targeted certain aspects of metaphysics. Physicists Are Philosophers, Too 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z From what remains of the works of the Presocratics, they were primarily interested in questions of metaphysics and natural philosophy. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The fact is, both the ancients and pre-Galileo Medievalists equated geography with divine order, geophysics with metaphysics, and simply didn't see the need to connect "itineraries" with map concepts. A World Without Maps 2013-10-30T01:32:46Z I scrub out the metaphysics and the Big Spiritual Questions and the silly Navajo scene and the Fall from Grace. 'Beyond: Two Souls' Review: An In-Depth Critique 2013-10-09T19:13:00Z Surprised that a rock might heal her, she commenced a two-decade study of metaphysics and theosophy. | West Village: Stick, Stone and Bone Sells Products for the New Age 2013-08-22T19:57:59Z "Sceptics about free will claim that the concept is just a supporting bit of metaphysics to justify our practice of punishing people," says philosopher Prof Wayne Martin, of Essex University. What can a brain scan tell us about free will? 2013-08-13T07:12:56Z Early biographers emphasize his contributions to the fields of logic and metaphysics, which are still recognized as pivotal today. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z And that meant one based on the metaphysics of Aristotle, especially its claim that the human soul is the form of the body. New Book Channels Aquinas And Embryogenesis 2013-08-04T13:32:00Z And metaphysics, the extension of science in metaphysical ways, is not subject to empirical test. For Scientists, Some Philosophies Are A Dead End 2013-04-21T12:33:04Z Thematically, we’re left with smatterings of religion, hints of metaphysics, a notion of race and a few half-fleshed characters with unsatisfying ends. Bioshock: Infinite Review -- Glorious Spectacle 2013-04-10T17:24:53Z There are discussions of metaphysics and time travel and multiverse theory and all sorts of things buried there. The One Twist in BioShock Infinite's Ending You Might Have Missed Completely 2013-03-29T12:47:36Z Another major question in metaphysics relates to cosmology. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z He holds a PhD in metaphysics and logic from the University of London and is chairman of the . Why do Britons settle in the West Bank? 2013-02-04T14:20:09Z In terms of metaphysics, van Fraasen writes, that would be a philosophical truth. For Scientists, Some Philosophies Are A Dead End 2013-04-21T12:33:04Z Much of the court’s discussion focused on what Justice Anthony M. Kennedy called the “metaphysics” of defining “plain error” and why it is necessary in order for courts to right wrongs. Supreme Court conflicted over fixing mistake 2012-11-29T02:04:57Z Such a failure to object is often but not always fatal, and the question for the justices involved, as Justice Anthony M. Kennedy put it, “the metaphysics of the plain error rule.” Justices Consider Lawyer’s Misstep and Find More 2012-11-29T04:23:39Z During this two day celebration of all things technologically progressive, we enjoyed the summit’s signature cocktail of research, futurism, and metaphysics. The Limits of the Virtual: Why Stores and Conferences Won't Go Away 2012-11-09T22:53:46Z We were in the realm of the higher metaphysics. Taxi for Mr Buckles: MPs savage G4S boss over Olympics chaos 2012-07-17T19:59:01Z Space doesn’t allow a detailed review, but a main contention of van Fraasen is that metaphysics, one of the foundational branches of classical philosophy, is … a waste of time. For Scientists, Some Philosophies Are A Dead End 2013-04-21T12:33:04Z To him the answer belonged firmly in the realm of metaphysics. Lives: Trying to Become Pregnant, the Eastern Way 2012-07-06T14:21:31Z There is no room for metaphysics or ontological enquiry in Call of Duty or NintendoLand. David Cage on grief, game design and Beyond: Two Souls 2012-07-04T13:55:27Z “Whenever you get two people interpreting the same data in different ways,” he said, “that’s metaphysics.” What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific "Truth" 2012-05-23T19:15:00.423Z The philosophic scepticism with which the system of Hume ended and the system of Kant began, has given the greatest modern impulse to metaphysics and ethics. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z In short, for more than one, 'Islam realises the maximum of altruism with a minimum of metaphysics.' The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z The first two divisions—the “objective logic”—are what is usually called metaphysics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z The first is devoted to determining the nature and limits of positive sciences—that is, of the sciences properly so called—and to showing that they cannot pretend to abolish or replace metaphysics. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Henceforth the real support of metaphysics was taken away, and the study fell more and more into disrepute as the nineteenth century waxed old. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z Heraclitus is in a real sense the founder of metaphysics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z On one occasion his remark was, "Well, gentlemen, if these be his physics, what must his metaphysics be?" Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work 2012-04-06T02:00:32.097Z Hegel’s lectures, in the winter of 1801-1802, on logic and metaphysics were attended by about eleven students. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z We know that metaphysics hang upon the solution of this question. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Not the system of Hegel or Schopenhauer or of any other professor of metaphysics is the true philosophy of the age; these are but echoes of a past civilisation, voices and præterea nil. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z And when these were discovered by metaphysics, logic was exercised upon them; and a dispute arose as to whether truth exists independently of the perceptions of man. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z He gave a stupendous account of both natural and moral philosophy, and even of metaphysics. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z Her tastes seemed then to lead her wholly into the somewhat barren fields where German metaphysics endeavor to come to the relief or the confusion of German theology. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z It is by so doing that he renovated metaphysics. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z He sojourned in this wood from youth to age, regardless of everything, save cocoa-nuts and metaphysics.’ Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z It is always a grave question in sacred metaphysics as to whether God directed Jonah’s lot, and, if yes, whether the casting of lots is analogous to playing with loaded dice. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z By the road of self-study, she reached that sublime height of metaphysics, the intellectual vision of the Absolute. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Hegel had freed history from metaphysics—he had made it dialectic; but his conception of history was essentially idealistic. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 2012-03-26T02:00:37.300Z On this point also traditional metaphysics came to his support, at least as regards time. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z We feel that some apology is necessary for having thus plunged our readers all at once into the middle of metaphysics. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z Primal philosophy was what we now know as metaphysics; natural philosophy meant the sciences of physics, botany, etc.; and moral philosophy denoted ethics and politics. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z The lady whom you take down to supper suggests Proposition 41 as a nice thing to talk about, and asks what you think of the metaphysics of ethics. An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life 2012-03-21T02:00:30.747Z Materialism is as much metaphysics as Spiritualism is; and the materialist who condemns metaphysics condemns himself. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Now, as the absolute is the proper object of metaphysics, it follows that metaphysics lack an object, having nothing to say thereon. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z For the present writer the hypothesis is just one more incursion into the fairyland of metaphysics. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The truth seems to be that Voltaire had neither taste nor talents for metaphysics. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z It is no wonder that the students who do not go to the bottom during their first month of metaphysics begin to give themselves airs strictly so called. An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life 2012-03-21T02:00:30.747Z Other subjects of study were rhetoric, declamation, a modicum of history, and also logic, metaphysics, and ethics. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z Kant only expounded, under a rigorous and systematic form, all the critical portion of previous metaphysics. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z There is, if one is to judge by the anthologies, far too much of metaphysics in contemporary poetry. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z You will never succeed in delivering men from error by means of metaphysics. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z In the metaphysics class I was like the fountains in the quadrangle, which ran dry toward the middle of the session. An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life 2012-03-21T02:00:30.747Z And accordingly it hath been generally noted, that the excellent mathematicians, who converse altogether with lines, figures, and other differences of quantity, have seldom proved eminent in metaphysics or speculative divinity. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Hence it is self-condemned, and consequently metaphysics is not a science. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Poetry is in danger of suffocating in a misty mid-region of metaphysics. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z It is never by metaphysics that you will succeed in delivering men from error; you must prove the truth by facts. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z It was then, however, that the professor of metaphysics had his revenge on me. An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life 2012-03-21T02:00:30.747Z But in the case of psychology and ethics the harmlessness of natural metaphysics will be less certain. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Nothing more true, and this is the basis of metaphysics. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z The subtleties of Grecian metaphysics introduced into the Christian religion, had hatched an infinity of disputes, which had not hitherto been attended with any remarkable occurrence. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z In metaphysics, in phrenology, in animal magnetism, in electricity, in chemistry, the tendency is the same, even when conclusions seem most dissonant. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z To some people it seems that modern scientific concepts border very closely upon, if they do not actually invade, the realm of metaphysics. 100 Years Ago: Lighter Than Air 2012-03-03T13:45:02.307Z He can wander into ethics, aesthetic, and logic, into epistemology and metaphysics. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z When a writer, using the word mystical opprobriously, prints it in italics, it is usually safe to decide that he knows nothing of metaphysics. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z He attended lectures given by the professors of colleges, became acquainted with Victor Cousin, the noted writer on morals and metaphysics, and the friend of authors, lawyers, and journalists. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z It was just for this reason that the theoreticians of the proletariat had to expose the metaphysics of democracy as a philosophic mask for political mystification. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z Nature, art, metaphysics, religion, history, are all in turn made to contribute something towards the illustration of the armilogist’s theories. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z Hauréau points out that St Thomas was a vitalist in physics, an animist in metaphysics, a nominalist in philosophy, and a realist in theology. Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 2012-02-22T03:00:23.620Z The doctrine of the divine immanence is glorious in his eyes; the faith in personal immortality is taken into the inner citadel of metaphysics, where Parker seldom penetrated. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z March weather prevented walks abroad, so the pair spent most of the week in smoking and talking metaphysics in the barn,—Hawthorne usually lounging upon a carpenter's bench. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z If a man had a knack at metaphysics and a fine flow of technical language he could satisfy all reasonable curiosity about the Universe. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z It holds a more magnificent, a more humanly satisfying optimism than metaphysics has dared, a promise of greater intimacy with the living truth than cold reason ever formulated. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z There is, however, no propriety in wasting any time about the science of metaphysics. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z The most obscure systems became intelligible in that limpid and lucid speech, which reported with faultless dexterity the agile movements of the Gallic mind, and made popular the most abstruse doctrines of metaphysics. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z He should know something of mechanics, a little about politics, commerce, and metaphysics; and in addition to all this, he should know how to make something. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z Let him tell of the wondrous metaphysics, myths and religions of India and Egypt. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z She had never troubled her mind over metaphysics. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z I will give you my definition of metaphysics: Two fools get together; each admits what neither can prove, and thereupon both of them say, "hence we infer." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z But in his earlier days the "windy harangues" and "dizzying metaphysics" had their charm for him too; the philosophy of the Highgate sage was in essence and fruit his own. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z They tried to put metaphysics, that is to say, Calvinism, in poetry. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z In fact, his philosophy supplanted, for a time, the infidel metaphysics of Hume and the French rationalists. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z Up in the mountains he had questioned not only his metaphysics, but his habits. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Think that floating pyramids are more metaphysics than physics? The Unusual Physics of Floating Pyramids 2012-02-07T19:55:48Z He has, therefore, avoided the metaphysics of his theme, by presenting cardinal ideas in the simplest statement he could command, and omitting the details that would only cumber a narrative. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z There is also something like a conservative disposition, which is characterized by an appreciation for the complexity of human society, the limitations of politics and the dangers of mistaking politics for metaphysics. What Is a Conservative? 2012-02-02T13:00:16Z It was Reid however that first gave clearness and method to the metaphysics of Scotland. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z In place of the long meditations on philosophy and metaphysics, we have brief notes of comings and goings, of speaking and preaching, writing and reading. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z This way lie metaphysics, with Hegel’s theory of the Sensitive Soul, or Myers’ theory of the Subliminal Self. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z Wherefore now, asks Kant, are metaphysics so far behind logic, mathematics, and physics? Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z Mysticism deals with transcendental metaphysics, and is of the spiritual, belonging to religion. The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation 2012-01-18T03:00:12.427Z I talked a great deal of poetry to him, and of rudimentary metaphysics. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z The poem was finished, more or less to her satisfaction, but she was weary with working over it, and with "reading heavy books, Max M�ller on metaphysics, Blanqui on political economy." Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z This distinction between the two systems, far from being a matter of abstract theory of metaphysics or logic-chopping, is just the difference which distinguishes the Anglo-Saxon from the Turk, which distinguishes America from Turkey. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z The article on Novalis, in the "Foreign Review" of 1829, No. 7, presents with a master hand the peculiarities of the new metaphysics that were regenerating the German mind. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z My discussion, I may say at once, will avoid metaphysics as carefully as it will avoid theology. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z So in an address to the American Psychological Association, he openly renounced his first position, adding, however, as a half-smiling reservation, that metaphysics should give up some of its nonsense as a condition of admission. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z He never undertook to fathom the intricacies of psychology and metaphysics.* Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z In making of Christ the Second Person of the Eternal Trinity, the Son of the Father, consubstantial and equal, it removes Him from history and transports Him into metaphysics. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z Ask not a man of understanding to solve a problem in metaphysics. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z But another famous Butler—Samuel Butler, the author of Hudibras—went farther than this, and maintained that identities were the highest attainment of metaphysics itself. The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll 2011-12-30T03:00:24.883Z As Huff writes: The problem was that the new, Western astronomy was embedded in a very different metaphysics. The Best Book of 2011: Why Science Emerged in the West 2011-12-29T17:55:32Z He remembered your metaphysics also and asked with terrible solicitude whether they yet persevered. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z It is the same thing in other terms; and indeed it is to make metaphysics in the etymological sense of the word. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z Yet to do that seemed the only way to arrive at certainty, and raise metaphysics to the established rank of physics, mathematics, and logic. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z Theology, poetry, and even metaphysics became alive; all sorts of unpractical questions became suddenly burning. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Besides being a chancery lawyer, he was more particularly a philosopher, conspicuous for his knowledge of Hegelian metaphysics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z We hope the reader will be under no alarm from such a beginning, or entertain any fear of being treated to a dish of indigestible metaphysics. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z A common prejudice requires that we should have metaphysics as a support to religion. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z He meditated a fresh departure, and proposed to effect in metaphysics a revolution parallel with that which Copernicus effected in astronomy. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z By dint of metaphysics, modern theologians have become systematically absurd and wicked, in teaching the odious ideas they entertain of the deity. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z In science and theology, mathematics and poetry, metaphysics and law, he is a competent and always a fair if not a profound critic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z It is largely due to women with a taste for metaphysics or theology that the agitation still goes on in Great Britain and the United States. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z We know theories which deny the very possibility of metaphysics, and it is a question whether a truly Christian dogmatic accommodates itself to it better than any other theory. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z Again, that I was a philosopher, with a wise head, and taught men theological metaphysics; and so a large company of men seemed all at once smitten with a panic for metaphysics and abstract preaching. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z But in metaphysics and political philosophy, what German could supply his place? The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z Neither first causes, final causes, nor the essences of things, ought—according to it—to be the object of scientific research, for these, it considers, are not science, but metaphysics. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z Such conceptions in their proper sphere—namely, that of metaphysics—would be no doubt of interest, but when advanced as a scientific proposition or solution they border on the ridiculous. The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena 2011-12-21T03:00:36.570Z It is on religion, on the contrary, that metaphysics and ethics rest. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z By modern metaphysics conscience has been relegated from the domain of the intellect to its proper place among the emotions. Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others 2011-12-16T03:00:10.740Z An objection not merely verbal might indeed be taken to Schopenhauer's metaphysics of ethics strictly on his own ground. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Under the name of metaphysics it included religion, theology, and moral teaching, all of which were to be simply eliminated as of no interest to men of intellect. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z Nature, on the other hand, was divided into speculative and applied science,—the speculative containing both physics and metaphysics; the applied, mechanics and magic. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z This is the sense in which it is permissible to maintain that religion is as independent of metaphysics as it is of cosmology. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z His philosophy is bad, but his metaphysics is worse. Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others 2011-12-16T03:00:10.740Z Constantly on the alert as he was to seize upon confirmations of his system, he published in 1836 his short work On the Will in Nature, pointing out verifications of his metaphysics by recent science. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Out of the union of Hegelianism and Positivism—the negation of absolute truth, and the disdain of metaphysics—was born a new historical criticism, which repudiated a priori the supernatural as false and impossible. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z It is no part of my purpose to attempt to show here how this general philosophical interest differentiates into the various interests of metaphysics, of the philosophy of religion, of ethics, of æsthetics, of logic. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z When an objective science transforms itself into metaphysics, it ceases to be science and becomes subjective philosophy. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z Law jargon, quibbles, quiddities, preposterous syllogisms, fragments of distorted Latin, misapplied quotations from the Pandects, mingle with metaphysics, astrology, and physical chim�ras about the spheres and elements and humours, in his talk. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Kant's 'Transcendental �sthetic,' he says, was a real discovery in metaphysics; but on the basis of this he for the most part only gave free play to his architectonic impulse. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z But he was well versed in metaphysics, he was a deep theologian, and his knowledge of modern history was only bounded by the limits of the theme. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z He would be too narrow and sour a disciple of scholastic metaphysics and systematic philosophy, who, because of the levity or scorning of "outsiders," should refuse them all credit. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z It is a remnant of ancient metaphysics which ought to be eliminated from modern philosophy. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z He spent all his spare time in the study of classics, history, metaphysics and political economy, and in learning German, French and Italian. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z This at a later stage makes possible the transition from physics to metaphysics. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Some of its articles, such as the essays of Thomas Hill Green, the Hegelian philosopher of Balliol, occupy a permanent place in the literature of metaphysics. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z This variety of interests and of culture led to the result of his making important contributions to psychology, logic, metaphysics, and æsthetics. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z The most considerable piece in this volume is, on the principles which lead and direct philosophical inquiries, illustrated by the history of astronomy, ancient physics, and ancient logic and metaphysics. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 2011-12-05T03:00:41.403Z Carrying on the same analytical method into the special department of moral philosophy, Green held that ethics applies to the peculiar conditions of social life that investigation into man’s nature which metaphysics began. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z This apparent contradiction he solves by leaving a place for metaphysics. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Magdalen College, founded in 1448, carried the tutorial system to its logical end by endowing lectureships in theology, metaphysics, and natural philosophy. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z When we seek to determine the place of metaphysics in the general scheme of human knowledge, we are at once confronted by an initial difficulty of some magnitude. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z The geographic metaphysics of their party membership is curious. Gotham: In Queens, Political Center Is in Surrogate?s Court 2011-11-29T02:16:35Z When such methods are once brought to view as the basis of all existing religions and metaphysics, they are already discredited. Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits 2011-11-28T03:00:26.030Z From Schopenhauer's metaphysics, as we shall see, it follows that no higher form of life will ever appear. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z The inquiry and search for these ultimate traits is what constitutes valid metaphysics. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z That they are in point of fact not ultimately separable would seem to be the doctrine which, under various forms of statement, is common to and characteristic of all the "idealistic" systems of metaphysics. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z When he had got through, he had learned, so far as metaphysics is concerned, absolutely nothing, and had merely the job of clearing out of his mind great masses of verbal cobwebs. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z Here we had to do mostly with pure metaphysics. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Here we have arrived at the thought which, in its various expressions, constitutes Schopenhauer's metaphysics. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z His metaphysics, as would be expected, are evolutionary throughout, and evolution is conceived, where he is at all definite, in biological terms. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z In dealing with the relation of metaphysics to the formal sciences generally, the great difficulty which confronts us is that of determining exactly the boundaries which separate one from another. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z We are not surprised at Dr. Driver's turning away from the metaphysics of this theory. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z Call them categories, and sacred laws, principles of reason, etc., and you have the actual state of metaphysics, calling all the analogies of phenomenal life impossibilities. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z This difference between characters Schopenhauer goes on to explain in terms of his metaphysics. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z If this be taken, as would seem, for the ultimate truth about reality and man's place in it, it must be called a metaphysics. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z Now such a view seems to make it almost impossible to draw any ultimate distinction between logic and metaphysics. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z This is all that just metaphysical criticism leaves of the idols set up by the spurious metaphysics of vulgar common sense. Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley 2011-11-24T03:00:46.350Z I would I were at Giverny to talk metaphysics with you, and enjoy a country where I am not responsible for the droughts and the garden. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z As 'metaphysics of the people,' it is a mythological expression of philosophical truth: as mysticism, it is a kind of 'epi-philosophy.' Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z We should be as grateful for it in this field as we are to Schopenhauer in the domain of metaphysics. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z Let us consider then, in the light of this great Copernican revolution, the questions of the point of view, principle, and method of metaphysics. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z In 1730 he was appointed extraordinary professor of poetry, and, in 1734, ordinary professor of logic and metaphysics in the university. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Oxford produced some of the greatest schoolmen: Duns Scotus, the "subtle," who had written thirteen folio volumes of arid metaphysics before his early death; Bradwardine, the "profound," and Ockham, the "invincible and unmatched." Oxford and Her Colleges 2011-11-02T02:00:09.560Z This new generation of talking heads subscribes to a bellicose corollary of Cartesian metaphysics: I rip, therefore I am. On Football: To Rise Above the Din, Many Ex-Players Talk Trash 2011-11-02T00:38:03Z The truth it is that metaphysics doesn’t win championships. Texas Monthly: For Rangers Fans, the Promised Land Was Two Strikes and a Few Inches Away 2011-10-29T15:57:15Z For what metaphysics is interested in, specially, is the fact that the world must be reduced to one kind of being and one type of agency. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Now, who has the right to say, either in mathematics or metaphysics, in any philosophy, that x=ab? Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z Philistine thinks that his most urgent need is a purple patch or turban of metaphysics, nor will he let it slip. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z This work contains his contributions towards the metaphysics of music, if, indeed, such can be said to exist. The Influence of the Organ in History Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University 2011-10-20T02:00:26.947Z Mathematics, metaphysics, dialectics and philology must form the granite basis of your building, sustaining the solid tiers of rich and varied marbles. Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses 2011-10-20T02:00:26.230Z That this is the alternative that is embodied in the existence of metaphysics is clearly demonstrated by the fact that the metaphysical interpretation embodies itself in the categories of reason, design, purpose, and aim. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z It never formed any part of the plan of this work to give an extended examination of the logician's system of metaphysics, or even to notice it particularly. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z The Metaphysicians' Knapsack.—To all who talk so boastfully of the scientific basis of their metaphysics it is best to make no reply. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z In its scope it comprises alchemy, chemistry, science in general, philosophy, metaphysics, morals, biology, sociology, theosophy, materialism, and theism—the natural and supernatural.... Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z Nor was he less skilled in philosophy, metaphysics, and divinity; and his knowledge of Hebrew was so profound that he taught it publicly in the Roman schools. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z Now it has become clear that with metaphysics unity is a cardinal interest; that, therefore, the world must be one in thought, purpose, aim. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z There was no pure metaphysics—a compendium or two of philosophy, a bit of Spinoza, of Kant, of Cousin, of Jouffroy, of Malebranche, the "Dialogues" of Plato—nothing of Schelling or Hegel. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z Using it, as we have hitherto used it, in the sense of metaphysics, the majority of the Philosophes have very little claim to their title. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z He was the author of several works on philosophy and metaphysics. Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ 2011-10-14T02:00:24.730Z Mathematics, natural philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, commerce, agriculture, legislation—the whole extent of modern civilization—date from the Reformation, and exist only in Protestant countries. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z But the world presents itself as a plurality of finite existents which our metaphysics requires us to reduce in the last analysis to the psychic type. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z To a native talent for metaphysics, his early studies at Heidelberg probably contributed congenial training. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z But in metaphysics proper it had not dabbled. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z The young ladies have laid aside metaphysics and rhetoric to make clothes for the boys fighting in the Carolinas. The Story of a Life 2011-10-11T02:01:02.723Z Geulincx carried out to their extreme consequences the irreconcilable elements in the Cartesian metaphysics, and his works have the peculiar value attaching to the vigorous development of a one-sided principle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z It is on this basis that metaphysics constructs its doctrine of individuality. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z For metaphysics seems to him very much in need of outside help. The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey 2011-09-29T02:00:12.190Z And metaphysics, we do well to remember with Professor James, "means only an unusually obstinate attempt to think clearly and consistently." Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) 2011-09-27T02:00:21.343Z All your discourses on the metaphysics of love are less convincing to me than one kiss from those lovely lips, and why should you keep up such a show of resistance? The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z To discuss higher metaphysics and occultism with the husband, and observe its practical application by his wife, constituted a treat. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z Nothing was further from our intentions than a substitution of metaphysics for concrete science. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Any originality that is claimed for him lies in the region of interpretation of previous thought, and that in the departments of metaphysics and jurisprudence, not of economics. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z Ultimately, no doubt, a metaphysics is involved here too; but it is a metaphysics whose final reality is spirit, not an unknown substance—Locke's "something, I know not what." Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) 2011-09-27T02:00:21.343Z What was the good, then, of his learning philosophy, metaphysics, and chemistry? Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z Thus sings Alfred Tennyson, the poet of metaphysics: "if we could see and hear"; alas! it is always an "if." My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z But if the transcending will is over-individual, it reaches the absolute values of religion and metaphysics. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z It's got all those elements you expect from him, including quite a bit of erotic interest, girls in various states of undress, a series of cheerfully embraced stereotypings and high-flown metaphysics. Festival finale: Alasdair Gray's all-star Fleck 2011-08-29T07:29:53Z He has read Voltaire and Bob Ingersoll in a haphazard way, and also sopped up some queer odds and ends from works on metaphysics and philosophy. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z He opened his lips to speak words that flowed to them without conscious thought, phrases as utterly foreign to his vocabulary as metaphysics to a Hottentot. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z What you call love, to me means nothing: nonsense taught to children, priest's metaphysics. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z If it is hard to determine precisely the scope of metaphysics, it is no less difficult to do the same thing for the undoubtedly legitimate sciences of logic and mathematics. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Indeed, we may ask the question: Was there ever in any country a professor of metaphysics with so adequate a store of humour and with a more irresistible fancy to display it? Ludvig Holberg, The Founder of Norwegian Literature and an Oxford Student 2011-08-25T02:00:32.027Z Religion becomes a system of metaphysics, and often loses itself in the mazes of its own subtlety. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z There is therefore something to preserve in this notion, though it is a very tiny part of what is commonly assumed in orthodox metaphysics. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Anyhow, metaphysics apart, and to return to St. Jerome. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z One more general reflection, and we may pass to the consideration of the relation of metaphysics to the various already organized branches of human knowledge more in detail. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z A voluminous writer upon metaphysics and natural sciences. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z In metaphysics, also, we have confessedly done little more than revive the labors of the Greeks.—H. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z In their writings, logic is practically identical with metaphysics. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Sometimes the questioning takes on a still clearer ring of metaphysics, startling and shocking perhaps the patient listener. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z Logic thus seems to become either the whole or an integral part of the science of order, and there remain only two possible ways of distinguishing it from metaphysics. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Author of over 300 books on chemistry, theology, metaphysics, etc. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z No man is obliged by the moral law to be what is called a scholar; no one is obliged to learn astronomy or transcendental mathematics, still less metaphysics. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z The conviction born of these moods is the source of most mysticism and of most metaphysics. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z All these attempts to define religion in terms of ethics, of metaphysics, or as the craving after an ideal are wholly misleading. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z Of the relation of metaphysics to pure mathematics it would be impertinent for any but a trained mathematician to say very much. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Now, nothing is more common in metaphysics, than to know that when a fancy or love is not returned by the object of affection, it generally turns into as great a hatred. Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion 2011-07-29T02:00:29.353Z They poise this important 392 question upon some small points of their own slender logic, and decide it on the strength of their own unintelligible metaphysics. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z The faith of the Zu�is, with its metaphysics, its devoutness and its magic ritual, may seem a kind of introduction to the magic, the ritual and the piety of the ancient Aztecs. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z He is not at all interested in metaphysics, and his contributions to the discussions of a philosophical society would be of a very meagre character. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z Now as regards the descriptive sciences, the position to which, as I believe, metaphysicians are more and more tending is that here metaphysics has, strictly speaking, no right at all to interfere. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z There are problems in metaphysics as there are in mathematics, which may be demonstrated to be insolvable. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z No statement therefore which ignores his metaphysics and his philosophy of religion can be more than a fragmentary account of that theory. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z However, these are paths of metaphysics, in which it is not well to linger, unless one can give time and all one's thoughts to their exploration. Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore 2011-07-06T02:00:50.100Z My interest in the metaphysics of the trinity is that it gives us a firm grasp on the personality of God and the personality of man. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z And I should be inclined only to object to any attempt to foreclose examination by forcing a conclusion either in the theistic or in the atheistic sense on alleged grounds of a priori metaphysics. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Lord Brougham informs us, that what Newton's Principia is to science, Locke's essay to metaphysics, Demosthenes in oratory, and Homer in poetry, Cuvier's researches to our fossil osteology. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z Nor is it more surprising that metaphysics, too, should give its consent. God and the State 2011-07-02T02:00:10.230Z The Germans have, as they deserve, the pre-eminence in music, in metaphysics, and in many departments of high culture. Modern Society 2011-06-23T02:00:27.897Z I further believe that when we do not read a later metaphysics into the Bible, the Scriptures wholly support the more modern conception. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z This is the great transformation that conditions the possibility and value of all metaphysics. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z You have always been pitching into me for reading metaphysics, but look at the difference between us now. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z Thus was born metaphysics, and thus were developed and perfected the divine ideas, the basis of Spiritualism. God and the State 2011-07-02T02:00:10.230Z Thus it was that the soul of Chrysis, limpid as a little child's, appeared to Demetrios more mysterious than a problem in metaphysics. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z Not being able to believe in the divinity of Jesus according to the old metaphysics, multitudes are ceasing to believe in Him as Emmanuel,—or "God with us." What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z Such an explanation we call teleological or rational, rather than merely mechanical, and such a principle is alone adequate to embody the ratio sufficiens of metaphysics. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z His profound knowledge of science, philosophy, and metaphysics was invaluable. H. P. Blavatsky A Great Betrayal 2011-06-12T02:00:09.327Z The electric theory explains and elucidates all natural philosophy and all material phenomena, and is as a scientist has well said, "the best exposition ever offered of the physics and metaphysics of the universe." The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z The arid abstractions of the schoolmen were succeeded by the fanciful visions of the occult philosophers; and both were but preludes to the experimental philosophy of Bacon and Newton, and the metaphysics of Locke. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z He had nothing to communicate but metaphysics and geometry. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z Having determined the point of view and principle of metaphysics, the question of metaphysical method will be divested of some of its greatest difficulties. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z He accepts and reiterates his master’s doctrine that the day of metaphysics is past, so that his philosophy is, in a sense, the negation of philosophy. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z It was always a grave question in sacred metaphysics as to whether God directed Jonah's lot, and, if yes, whether the casting of lots is analogous to playing with loaded dice. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z Exercising the most nervous logic, and the most subtle metaphysics, he was also deeply imbued with Platonic reveries. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z There are no quintessential metaphysics which can prevail against good sense; and if such is the Platonic theory of ideas, Aristotle is right in his opposition to it. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z And it is this transformation that marks one of the most fundamental steps in the method of metaphysics. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Modern physics dismisses this metaphysics, although philosophers seem reluctant to follow. The Evolution of Common Sense 2011-05-24T14:45:00.243Z |
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