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

These remarks are just; but does not he draw an erroneous conclusion from his own principles, when he infers, that the first lessons which we should teach a child, ought to be metaphysical?

From Practical Education, Volume I by Edgeworth, Maria

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