be metaphysical
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But historically, it has sometimes been argued to be metaphysical because measuring the existence of something requires interacting with it, and by definition, we cannot receive signals from beyond our event horizon.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 1, 2023
Nick Flynn: Let me think—"so strange / to imagine . . ." I mean it gets very, you know, more than most of my poems, it gets very—would that be metaphysical, or—?
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 19, 2018
The vignettes can be metaphysical or as simple as a curious cat peering into a number 4.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is, however, the thoughtful love of a 254man who can be metaphysical in love, not the excluding mastery of passion.
From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus) Brooke
Nor do I speak of metaphysics at all unless one would imply that what I have called supernatural explanations needs must be metaphysical.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
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