2015年8月21日 · 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 …

2024年9月14日 · metaphysics philosophy-of-science philosophy-of-mathematics truth Improve this question edited Sep 24, 2024 at 1:07 Julius Hamilton

2024年2月21日 · 4 Metaphysics is supposed to answer the question "What is the nature of reality?" Reality is by definition all that there is, so nature is part of it presuming it exists, if so then there …

2022年8月22日 · See Metaphysics: the science of being (according to Aristotle and his tradition) vs the inquiry about the fundamental problems of reality: Space and Time, Causation, Freedom and …

2024年4月5日 · The other branch of his metaphysics was his modal realism. Lewis held that the best theory of modality posited concrete possible worlds. A proposition is possible if and only if it is true at …

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 …

2025年9月13日 · You ask: What's the difference between a metaphysical object/entity and a physical but non-material object/entity? Depending on your metaphysical presuppositions, metaphysical …

2025年8月27日 · Metaphysics (at the very least) lies in the province of the 'human' world — values, attitudes, ideals, social and cultural norms, etc — and the 'human' world is constructed in, mediated …

2020年5月30日 · 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, …