Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- From a metaphysical point of view; by metaphysical methods; as regards metaphysics.
- Supernaturally.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In the manner of metaphysical science, or of a metaphysician.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
metaphysical manner. - adverb Concerning
metaphysics .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a metaphysical manner
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Examples
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When you subject the concept of chariot to analysis, you are never going to find some kind of metaphysically or substantially real chariot that is independent of the parts that constitute the chariot.
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When you subject the concept of chariot to analysis, you are never going to find some kind of metaphysically or substantially real chariot that is independent of the parts that constitute the chariot.
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Of course when people say, "poetry is dead," they don't mean that everyone who writes a poem is actually a dead person (I don't think), but rather that the art form is "metaphysically" dead to the world.
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Of course when people say, "poetry is dead," they don't mean that everyone who writes a poem is actually a dead person (I don't think), but rather that the art form is "metaphysically" dead to the world.
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When you subject the concept of chariot to analysis, you are never going to find some kind of metaphysically or substantially real chariot that is independent of the parts that constitute the chariot.
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When you subject the concept of chariot to analysis, you are never going to find some kind of metaphysically or substantially real chariot that is independent of the parts that constitute the chariot.
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But Jung himself, strangely enough, in both of his carefully prepared arguments, specifically rejects all intention of dealing "metaphysically" with this theme, in spite of the fact that every movement toward a fuller recognition of creative energy is nothing less than metaphysics, even though not in name.
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Because we are "metaphysically" free, that is to say, our inborn disposition from which they necessarily emanate, is the work of our free will, which specific acts are not.
The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur Emile Joseph Dillon 1894
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Moreover, regarding your inane “taxing success” comment — do you think “success” is some metaphysically special event that occurs outside the normal realm of external causation and interconnectedness?
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First, the case against metaphysically robust free will is conceptual, not empirical.
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