Aug 21, 2015 · 7 Metaphysics is the title of a collection of lectures by Aristotle. The name is not by Aristotle but due to a later librarian who edited all scriptures of Aristotle. The librarian arranged the …

Metaphysics is a very broad field, and metaphysicians attempt to answer questions about how the world is. Ontology is a related sub-field, partially within metaphysics, that answers questions of what things …

Existence: I've never really seen this defined, and contemporary analytic metaphysics tends to make no distinction between existing and being. The Meinongians famously distinguished between different …

Mar 11, 2016 · Metaphysics seems to be a field that is almost purely abstract. However, I am also interested in knowing how metaphysics has impacted the real world, if at all.

May 30, 2020 · Metaphysics can be understood as dealing with what is common in the (empirical) sciences in a generalizing manner. Whereas biology deals with objects like cells, physics with atoms, …

Dec 18, 2015 · Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality gets to some recurrent questions that philosophy has encountered in a variety conundrums. In the following discussion I use signs to stand for any …

What is the difference between naturalism and materialism, if any? I see definitions of naturalism that say, in effect, it is the belief that there is no supernatural. But what is the supernatural

Jul 9, 2023 · I understand that this is a bit simplistic, and would require a broad survey of at least Physics, Metaphysics, and Math to really fully motivate. Either way, doesn’t debate about free will …

Feb 26, 2020 · Instead metaphysics is a 'discpline' of inquiry originating in Aristotle's Metaphysics and bears its name mainly due to that circumstance and maybe the fact that it deals with questions that …

Mar 11, 2025 · Concepts are man-made. Hence an existing concept cannot be precluded to our mind. Of course the concept can be contradictory or useless, but it has been invented by human minds. A …