What is another word for metaphysics?

Pronunciation: [mˌɛtəfˈɪzɪks] (IPA)

Metaphysics is a philosophical field that deals with the fundamental nature of existence, reality, and knowledge. There are several synonyms for metaphysics such as ontology, epistemology, cosmology, and transcendental philosophy. Ontology is the branch of metaphysics that deals with the study of being and existence. Epistemology, on the other hand, is the study of knowledge and the processes involved in acquiring knowledge. Cosmology is the study of the origin and structure of the universe. Finally, transcendental philosophy deals with the fundamental nature of reality and existence. All of these fields are focuses on the same fundamental questions that metaphysics aims to answer.

What are the hypernyms for Metaphysics?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Metaphysics?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for metaphysics (as nouns)

Usage examples for Metaphysics

Any originality that is claimed for him lies in the region of interpretation of previous thought, and that in the departments of metaphysics and jurisprudence, not of economics.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Logic, science, metaphysics, ethics, are part of the poetic material.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
Buddhism, too, has the credit of running further in the dream-land of subjective metaphysics than Brahminism,-though this, as far as my own very imperfect means of judging go, is doubtful.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham

Famous quotes with Metaphysics

  • Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
    John Adams
  • Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.
    Wilhelm Dilthey
  • However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.
    Wilhelm Dilthey
  • The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
    Wilhelm Dilthey
  • To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.
    Martin Heidegger

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