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Definition of metaphysic
1a : metaphysicsb : a particular system of metaphysics
2 : the system of principles underlying a particular study or subject : philosophy 3b
metaphysic
adjectiveFrom the M-W Editors
Recent Examples of metaphysic from the Web
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By Lowery’s loopy metaphysics, this sends the ghost back to the time of European settlement of the American frontier.
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Ela Ra: Metaphysics, Prince, latex, Rumi, Daft Punk, Steven Arnold, club kid fashion, Qawwali music, and a damn good sunrise.
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Occasionally metaphysics invades politics, to the surprise even of metaphysicians like me.
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Both authors sought to explore the modern journey toward a metaphysics of personal value and ended up creating a cult-like status driving the Beat Generation through the Age of Aquarius.
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His bookshelves are organized into categories: metaphysics, theology, biology, history, law.
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The scope of his work involves words and movement and certainly a kind of metaphysics.
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In the mid-1980s, a few years after Iran became the world’s first modern revolutionary theocracy, two charismatic intellectuals and their followers conducted a long-running feud over metaphysics in the country’s newspapers and lecture halls.
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Origin and Etymology of metaphysic
Middle English metaphesyk, from Medieval Latin metaphysica
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