He says expressly in his Prolegomena to any future metaphysic that can be regarded as Science (1783, p.
Official German philosophy is still for the most part taken up with a mediaeval metaphysic and the dualism of Kant, the openly dogmatic character of which it greets as "criticism.
The dualist metaphysic has rightly said that the mechanical philosophy does not discover the inner causes of these movements.
The main features of that metaphysic first appear in the Book of Daniel, where we find a doctrine of the last things.
The merit of laying the foundations for this religious metaphysic which the time called for belongs, if not to the Pharisees themselves, at least to the circles from which they immediately proceeded.
Here more metaphysic is called for: The Absolute Reason is now supposed to work under limiting conditions of finitude, of a sensitive and temporal organism.
This difficulty at once forces idealists from a logic of experience as it is concretely experienced into a metaphysic of a purely hypothetical experience.
He knew what's what, and that's as high / As metaphysic wit can fly.
Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude= 20 =can understand and adopt.
We have elsewhere discussed the more recent attempts to establish a metaphysic which shall be empirically well grounded and shall cautiously rise from facts.
Their logic never goes beyond the category of mechanism nor their metaphysic beyond dualism.
Let us now approach the science of mind with these excellent habits, renouncing the bad metaphysic which embarrasses our research, and the science of the mind will attain results surpassing all our hopes.
All those attempts to follow out metaphysic to its highest object, theology, would be useless if not wrong in the eyes of a Mussulman, who had already his simple and sharply-defined creed on all matters relating to the unseen world.
There was metaphysic enough in him truly, and things eternal and immutable, though his dark-skinned descendants were three hundred years in discovering the fact, and in proving it satisfactorily to all mankind for ever.
I do not say that theology and metaphysic are separate studies.
For I cannot but see, that a revulsion is taking place in the thoughts of our nation upon metaphysic subjects, and that Scotland, as usual, is taking the lead therein.
Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense!
But if the benefits of Coleridge's theological teachings are to be reduced to this, it would of course have been much better to have dissociated them altogether from the exceedingly abstruse metaphysic to which they have been wedded.
The rights men craved were not, as Burke insisted, the immediate offspring of metaphysic fancy, but the result of a determination to end the malignant wrong of centuries.
That lack of insight must, of course, be given some explanation; and its cause seems rooted in Burke's metaphysic outlook.
Rather may it be urged that what was needed in Burke's philosophy was the clear avowal of the metaphysic it implied.
Metaphysic reads the message of nature as if it were written purely pneumatically, as the church and its learned ones formerly did where the bible was concerned.
Inasmuch as all metaphysic has concerned itself particularly with substance and with freedom of the will, it should be designated as the science that deals with the fundamental errors of mankind as if they were fundamental truths.
Come, fairest princess of the throng, Bring sweet philosophy along, In metaphysic dreams; While raptured bards no more behold A vernal age of purer gold, In Heliconian streams.
Mutatis mutandis, the same holds of the metaphysic of logic, ethic, and esthetic.
The important thing is that their metaphysic and psychology were calculated, notwithstanding all their superficialities, to inspire an energetic social spirit, because they were pregnant with humanistic sentiment.
Anybody can now see that their metaphysicand psychology were imperfectly thought out.
But from the metaphysic sea No bottom was forthcoming, And all the while (how drearily!
These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of nature, refracted from their straight line.
This would be to act over again the scene of the criminals condemned to the galleys, and their heroic deliverer, the metaphysic knight of the sorrowful countenance.
The second part of metaphysic is the inquiry of final causes, which I am moved to report not as omitted, but as misplaced.
For natural history describeth the variety of things; physic the causes, but variable or respective causes; and metaphysic the fixed and constant causes.
And again, that physic should handle that which supposeth in nature only a being and moving; and metaphysic should handle that which supposeth further in nature a reason, understanding, and platform.
If, therefore, we have reported metaphysic deficient, it must follow that we do the like of natural magic, which hath relation thereunto.
Natural science or theory is divided into physic and metaphysic; wherein I desire it may be conceived that I use the word metaphysic in a differing sense from that that is received.
This, that physic inquires concerning the material and efficient causes, but metaphysic handles the formal and final causes.
So physic is in a middle term between natural history and metaphysic; for natural history describes the variety of things, physic the variable or respective causes, and metaphysic the fixed and constant causes.
Ate, seized by her hair, and by Zeus dashed from the battlements of heaven, is she only a metaphysic idea?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "metaphysic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: esoteric; metaphysical; mysterious; mystical; occult; supernatural
