met|a|phys|ics

met|a|phys|ics
met|a|phys|ics «MEHT uh FIHZ ihks», noun.
1. the branch of philosophy that tries to explain reality and knowledge; study of the real nature of things. Metaphysics includes epistemology (the theory of knowledge), ontology (the study of the nature of reality), and cosmology (the theory of the origin of the universe and its laws). »

Youth is the time…to circumnavigate the metaphysics (Robert Louis Stevenson).

2. the more abstruse or speculative divisions of philosophy, thought of as a unit.
3. any process of reasoning thought of as abstruse or extremely subtle.
[plural of earlier metaphysic, translation of Medieval Latin metaphysica < Medieval Greek () metaphysiká for Greek tà metà tà physiká the (works) after the Physics (referring to the order of the works of Aristotle)]

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