单词 | metaphysics |
释义 | meta·phys·ics 1. a. (1) < metaphysics … treats of the relations obtaining between the underlying reality and its manifestations — Fred Sommers > < metaphysics … analyzes the generic traits manifested by existences of any kind — J.H.Randall > < metaphysics, or the attempt to conceive the world as a whole by means of thought, has been developed, from the first, by the union and conflict of two very different human impulses, the one urging men towards mysticism, the other urging them towards science — Bertrand Russell > (2) < metaphysics as a philosophic discipline … concerned with the nature of the real only so far as that problem is amenable to the reflective method — C.I.Lewis > (3) b. (1) (2) < the mathematics and the metaphysics, fall to them as you find your stomach serves you — Shakespeare > 2. < differentiates between a theory of esthetic experience and a metaphysics of beauty — J.G.Brennan > < each language … conceals a unique metaphysics — B.L.Whorf > < erected a metaphysics on this fundamental antagonism of vitality or “Life” … and what he calls “Spirit” — V.C.Aldrich > 3. |
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