metaphysiologyn.
/ˌmɛtəˌfɪzɪˈɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˈˌmɛdəˌfɪziˈɑlədʒi/ Those aspects of individual somatic experience which lie beyond the scope of conventional physiology to describe; (spec. in G. H. Lewes' terminology) the treatment of life and the mind as distinct from and requiring different criteria for explanation from questions of physiology (now historical).
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1856 Westm. Rev. Oct. 283 Vitiated as all thinking was in those days by the à priori method which turned physics into metaphysics, physiology into metaphysiology, and chemistry into metachemistry, the labours of the Alchemists were nevertheless in great part experimental.
1876 G. H. Lewes in Fortn. Rev. 1 Apr. 479 There is still the radical separation between the conceptions of Creation and Evolution in the explanation—of the Cosmos; and between the conceptions of metaphysiology, and physiology in the explanation of Life and Mind.
1898 G. B. Shaw Perfect Wagnerite 101 Schopenhauer's metaphysiology (I use a word less likely to be mistaken than metaphysics).
1968 T. Leary Politics of Ecstasy i. 43 Metaphysiology is somatic psychology. The systematic study of internal body states.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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