metaphysicians

Neither the Jews, nor their earlier Hebrew ancestors, nor the Phoenicians before or after them, were in any sense of the word metaphysicians; nor did their language admit of those nicer distinctions and speculative conclusions which would have enabled any writer using it, thousands of years ago, to draw the commanding induction contained in this remarkable genesis.

Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright

In the other camp stood the 'metaphysicians' - aka the main-line western philosophical tradition from Plato to Kant.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2007

In the other camp stood the 'metaphysicians' - aka the main-line western philosophical tradition from Plato to Kant.

Richard Rorty-one kind of Tory 2007

The female metaphysicians, that is, those women whom Heaven has favored with a fortunate constitution, would take pleasure in recognizing in them their superiority over other women; they would not fail to congratulate themselves upon the delicacy of their own sentiments, and to consider them as works of their own creation.

Ninon de L'Enclos the Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century Robinson, Charles Henry 1903

This ideological envelope of human works has changed since then more than once in form, in appearance, in combinations and in relations in the course of the centuries, from the immediate production of the ingenuous myths up to the complicated theological systems and to The City of God of St. Augustine -- from the superstitious credulity in miracles down to the bewildering miracles of the metaphysicians, that is to say, down to the Idea which for the decadents of Hegelianism engenders of itself, in itself, by its own disaggregation, the most incongruous variations of social life in the course of history.

Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History 1896

Mr. Proctor was one of several featured "metaphysicians" who appeared in "The Secret" -- the avuncular gent who told us: "Disease cannot live in a body that's in a healthy emotional state."

If I Don't See It, It's Not There 2009

"metaphysicians" led to the reaction that for a hundred years stifled the lyric note in English song, so the extravagance of the heroic drama gave the death-blow to English tragedy.

English literary criticism Various

Government, "to remodel this great structure of empire on a theoretical basis, seemed to him a work for" metaphysicians, "and not for statesmen.

History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8) The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 John Richard Green 1860

From the topmost peak of reason James teaches to cease reasoning and to have faith that all is well and will be well -- the old, oh, ancient old, acrobatic flip of the metaphysicians whereby they reasoned reason quite away in order to escape the pessimism consequent upon the grim and honest exercise of reason.

Chapter 37 2010

And the metaphysicians would win by if they had to tell lies to do it.

Chapter 37 2010