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Metaphysical
Of or pertaining to metaphysics...
Metaphysically
In the manner of metaphysical science or of a metaphysician...
Brocard
An elementary principle or maximum a short proverbial rule in law ethics or metaphysics...
Coleridgian
Pertaining to Samuel Taylor Coleridge or to his poetry or metaphysics...
deconstruction
A philosophical theory of criticism usually of literature or film that seeks to expose deep seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning This method questions the ability of language to represent a fixed reality and proposes that a text has no stable meaning because words only refer to other words that metaphysical or ethnocentric assumptions about the meaning of words must be questioned and words may be redefined in new contexts and new equally valid and even contradictory meanings may be found Such new interpretations may be based on the philosophical political or social implications of the words of a text rather than solely on attempts to determine the authors intentions...
Metaphysician
One who is versed in metaphysics...
Metaphysics
The science of real as distinguished from phenomenal being ontology also the science of being with reference to its abstract and universal conditions as distinguished from the science of determined or concrete being the science of the conceptions and relations which are necessarily implied as true of every kind of being philosophy in general first principles or the science of first principles...
Ontology
That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings as such or the principles and causes of being...
Liter' humaniores
Liter' humaniores, Greek, Latin, general philology, logic, moral philosophy, metaphysics; the name of one of the principal courses of study in the University of Oxford....
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