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  1. What is the difference between the spiritual and the metaphysical

    May 30, 2020 · According to this (old) page, metaphysics is the study of things beyond anything humans can perceive. Because of this fact, metaphysics is relatively faith-based discipline and, compared to …

  2. Please explain to a beginner: what is metaphysics?

    Aug 21, 2015 · Heidegger once delivered a famous lecture called "What Is Metaphysics." After he finished and a baffled silence a student raised his hand. "But Professor Heidegger," he asked, "what …

  3. epistemology - Metaphysical Impossibility Vs Logical Impossibility ...

    Sep 29, 2024 · Metaphysical necessity, possibility, and impossibility, were basically invented by Kripke as an effort to patch rationality in the face of the realization of the radical contingency of our world.

  4. metaphysics - What's the difference between a metaphysical object ...

    Sep 13, 2025 · While usually the latter are classified as objects, it is a sensible view that the concrete things are objects, and the abstracta are otherwise. So, what's the difference between a …

  5. Are the laws of physics brute facts or metaphysical necessities?

    Nov 5, 2024 · Metaphysical necessity: In philosophy, metaphysical necessity, sometimes called broad logical necessity, is one of many different kinds of necessity, which sits between logical necessity …

  6. What is the nature of reality? Metaphysics: so the answer will "explain ...

    Feb 21, 2024 · The metaphysical question, uses "nature" in the first meaning. The hope is to explain the second type of "nature". But the metaphysical "nature"... means the "properties and characteristics" …

  7. What do professional philosophers mean by physicalism or "everything …

    Jul 10, 2023 · Metaphysical physicalism simply asserts that what there is, and all there is, is physical stuff and its relations. Linguistic physicalism is the thesis that everything physical can be expressed …

  8. Does Occam's Razor favor metaphysical solipsism?

    Oct 29, 2024 · From Wikipedia: In metaphysics, Metaphysical solipsism is the variety of idealism which asserts that nothing exists externally to this one mind, and since this mind is the whole of reality then …

  9. metaphysics - What is the criteria for a metaphysical truths ...

    Sep 1, 2016 · Metaphysical truths are usually truths that predicate the "true being", if one believes in such a thing. So to Plato existence of the ideal realm is a metaphysical truth, and to Aristotle of the …

  10. Is there really such a thing as metaphysical necessity?

    Jul 8, 2024 · Metaphysical necessity is a question on which philosophers continue to disagree. Our use of language contains a great deal of modal terminology. We say that some things are necessary, …