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Meaning:

Noun:

  • countable Plural of countable senses of metaphysic.
  • countable The view or theory of a particular philosopher or school of thinkers concerning the first principles which describe or explain all that is.
  • uncountable The branch of philosophy which studies fundamental principles intended to describe or explain all that is, and which are not themselves explained by anything more fundamental; the study of first principles; the study of being insofar as it is being (''ens in quantum ens'').
  • by extension from the philosophical sense Any fundamental principles or rules.
  • uncountable Displeasingly abstruse, complex material on any subject.
  • uncountable The study of a supersensual realm or of phenomena which transcend the physical world.

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