metaphysics

• This is what I term the metaphysics of concept, for it is a speculation which consists in juggling with abstract ideas. —  The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps
• This was an establishment on a considerable scale, in which a hundred scholars or thereabouts were taught the ordinary English branches, several of the modern languages, something of Latin, if desired, with a little natural philosophy, metaphysics, and rhetoric, to finish off with in the last year, and music at any time when they would pay for it. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
• He specially devoted himself to literature and metaphysics, and was noted for the beauty of his style. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• By its intimate resemblances to the judgment of the true and the beautiful, it shows us the secret affinities of morality, metaphysics, and aesthetics. —  Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
• The former he subdivides into logic, metaphysics, and physics; the latter into morals, natural right, and politics. —  History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology

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