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Today, metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that, loosely speaking, deals with those assumptions which physicists make in the constructions of theories that are not grounded in empirical evidence.

“All these questions of physics and metaphysics have changed because physics have changed,” says Sánchez.

They are read as being about blackness, as both color and mental state, or even as metaphysics.

He is, perhaps, the first crime writer since Christopher Marlowe to have a degree in metaphysics.

For Schwartz, the car was a veritable metaphysics of social and psychological meaning.

The author has avoided technicalities, and has also resisted the temptation of the psychologist to indulge in metaphysics.

Metaphysics and natural philosophy expressed the genius of Europe; he substricts the religion of Asia as the base.

With Aristotle, ethics formed only one branch of attention; his main inquiries were in reference to physics and metaphysics.

All that I had ever read in psychology and metaphysics came back to me.

Besides these spoils, the poet of to-day revels in the results of later metaphysics.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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