单词 | anti-metaphysical |
释义 | > as lemmasanti-metaphysical anti-metaphysical adj. and n. Brit. /ˌantɪmɛtəˈfɪzᵻkl/ , U.S. /ˌæn(t)iˌmɛdəˈfɪzək(ə)l/ , /ˌænˌtaɪˌmɛdəˈfɪzək(ə)l/ , /ˌæn(t)əˌmɛdəˈfɪzək(ə)l/ ΚΠ 1744 Visct. Bolingbroke Let. 12 Nov. in W. Coxe Mem. Sir R. Walpole (1798) II. 343 Your lordship will find some [letters] addressed to Pope, on metaphysical or rather antimetaphysical matters. 1757 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances II. cxciii. 42 The Trinity, as explained in this Essay,..has nothing anti-metaphysical in it. 1841 New-Eng. Weekly Rev. 20 Mar. 2/5 Those honest folks prone to talk of the anti-metaphysical tendency of the age. 1935 Mind 44 108 The prevailing positivistic and anti-metaphysical philosophies of science. 1950 Jrnl. Philos. 47 681 It is my thesis that this concept of man is the controlling assumption of all the modern anti-metaphysicals. 2007 D. Albright Musicking Shakespeare i. 41 Mercutio is preeminently pragmatic, anti-metaphysical, even anti-poetical. < as lemmas |
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