metaphysics – English noun declension

English noun forms of metaphysics

Noun: metaphysics
Singularmetaphysics
Pluralmetaphysics

Sample Sentences

  • The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, "Professor Cohen how do I know that I exist?" The keen old prof replied, "And who is asking?" [1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 157:]
  • Philosophers sometimes say that metaphysics is the study of the ultimate nature of the universe.
  • The metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas holds that all real beings have both essence and existence.
  • In Aristotelian metaphysics physical objects have both form and matter.
  • In his Pensées, Pascal mentioned some first principles recognized within his metaphysics: space, time, motion, and number.
  • Even other universes should be a result of different physics. Without rules, these universes wouldn't exist, because they will have an undefined, thus impossible, nature. We will never understand or guess all possible forms of physics. That's why we have to understand the generic metaphysics.
  • The metaphysics of global power has changed. Markets are now more valuable than territory. [1990 January 1, Lance Morrow, “Gorbachev: The Unlikely Patron of Change”, in Time:]
  • I have a collection of books on metaphysics, covering astral projection, reincarnation, and communication with spirits.
  • This political polemic strikes me as a protracted piece of overwrought, fog-shrouded metaphysics!

Nouns inflected like metaphysics

cement works, Old World ROM, mythopoetics, zhenniao, ichimon, seinen, sedoka, semese, sentai, senryū, senbei, whapuku, whapuka, selbri, Cinghalese, sayori, sansho, sanies, sanmai, sangza, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1560s; plural of metaphysic, from Middle English methaphesik, methaphisik, methaphisique, metaphesyk, methafisik, metaphesyk, methephysyk, from Old French metafisique, methaphisique and Medieval Latin metaphysica, methephisica, from Byzantine Greek μεταφυσικά (metaphusiká), from the title of the collection by Aristotle μετὰ τὰ φυσικά (metà tà phusiká, “Following The Natural World”), a collection that comes after (μετά (metá)) Aristotle's collection entitled τὰ φυσικά (tà phusiká, “The Natural World”), from φυσικός (phusikós, “natural”). By surface analysis, meta- + physics. See: Middle English Nouns 'methaphesik'.

Verbs referencing "metaphysics"

Finnish Nouns metafysiikka, Catalan Nouns metafísica, Galician Nouns metafísica, Portuguese Nouns metafísica, Spanish Nouns metafísica.