METAPHYSICS
\mˌɛtəfˈɪzɪks], \mˌɛtəfˈɪzɪks], \m_ˌɛ_t_ə_f_ˈɪ_z_ɪ_k_s]\
Definitions of METAPHYSICS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Noah Webster.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The branch of philosophy that treats of first principles, including ontology (the nature of existence or being) and cosmology (the origin and structure of the universe). (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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That branch of knowledge which deals with the nature, character, and causes of being, the existence of God, etc.; the study of those things which relate to the mental as distinguished from the physical; philosophy.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Sing. the science which investigates the first principles of nature and thought: ontology or the science of being.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The science which seeks to probe the inner secret, or logic, of thought or being, as the basis of and prior to that which is merely phenomenal and cognizable by the senses.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The science of mind or intelligence, as distinguished from the science of natural bodies or matter; philosophy in the general sense of the term, together with psychology. Note.- So called by the ancients, because they considered the science of natural bodies or physics the first in order of study, and the science of mind the second; but the name more probably arose from the simple fact that the writings of the first philosophy came after the physical treatises of the author.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. sing. [Greek] Ontology; the science which investigates the origin, principles, and causes of living existence;— the science of mind, as opposed to matter; mental, as opposed to physical philosophy psychology but the word is used in a most indefinite sense, and in popular language denotes abstruse and unprofitable speculation.
