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 …

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 …

2015年3月18日 · 7 Generally speaking, metaphysics seems to deal with questions that cannot be verified empirically, which are thus beyond the understanding of science. Because of this I'm …

2020年2月26日 · 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 …

2024年7月10日 · However, by the late 19th and early 20th centuries 'metaphysics' had gained a colloquial meaning of 'grand theory': sophisticated, abstract, and speculative, but detached from …

2015年12月18日 · 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 …

From what I understand, it is a term that combines ontology and theology, at least in the case of Heidegger, to describe modern metaphysics. To understand what onto-theology is, I first tried to

2023年3月12日 · The notion of fundamentality, as it is used in metaphysics, aims to capture the idea that there is something basic or primitive in the world. This metaphysical notion is related to the …

2022年8月18日 · In the Aristotle-Aquinas tradition prime matter is the thing that underlies all material things. It is described as completely indeterminate-pure potentiality. Aristotle held that it was not …