In the ninth century, Eriugena affords an extraordinary exception with his drastic restatement of what he had drawn from Pseudo-Dionysius and others; and at the end comes Anselm, whose genius is metaphysically constructive.
The metaphysically proved realities of Duns were rather spectral, and Occam's universals, subjective though they were, lived a real and active life.
But Thomas and the other scholastics dwelt in the region of the metaphysically ideal.
At any instant whatever, if we suppose motion, we must suppose contiguity; for the state of the question supposes this condition always present, as beingmetaphysically necessary.
If, where there is no body, distance is metaphysically impossible, this must be just as true in small as in great things, and even in infinitesimals.
This direction is metaphysically necessary, if we suppose that there is no distance where there is no body.
That if there were only two bodies in existence, it would be metaphysically impossible for them to be distant from each other.
Metaphysically considered, we have in this same first principle of a Theory of Science, the category of reality.
To gain Christian Science and its 65:12 harmony, life should be moremetaphysically regarded.
It is, however, of obvious practical importance to ascertain how far the power of the will (whether metaphysically free or not) actually extends: for this defines the range within which ethical judgments are in the strictest sense applicable.
Hence it follows that the ideas necessity and impossibility are correlative, and that is metaphysicallynecessary whose opposite is metaphysically impossible.
Now God as the All-Holy One is metaphysicallyopposed to sin; consequently, the same kind of opposition must exist between sanctifying grace and sin.
For one thus negatively reprobated it is metaphysically impossible to attain eternal salvation.
To say that it is metaphysically necessary is to say that it is the result of the divine essence, that it would imply a contradiction of the very being of God for the world not to be and not to be as it is.
For physically the individual is a production of the species, metaphysically a more or less perfect picture of the Idea, which, in the form of time, exhibits itself as species.
Now the constant disunion and reconciliation of its two elements which there takes place is, when metaphysically considered, the copy of the origination of new wishes, and then of their satisfaction.
They are metaphysically certain, when error is absolutely impossible, the opposite of what is held by the mind being a contradiction in terms which omnipotence itself could not make true.
He was one of those men who from their birth are metaphysically inclined.
I think there is something in the idea metaphysically speaking, but why should I go to a practitioner?
To those not metaphysically inclined, this is usually dark and without significance, but to those spiritually or metaphysically minded it comes as a great light.
Whether time itself is real we are not metaphysically certain, but that, whatever be its reality or unreality, we are conscious of it in the form of change, is beyond all manner of doubt.
He now takes it as equivalent to the absolutely or metaphysically possible.
For pure thought, Leibniz's system is the ultimate and only possible philosophy; and were thought capable of determining the nature of things in themselves, we should be constrained to adopt it as metaphysically valid.
It was held with full consciousness of its grounds and implications, and reality was metaphysically reinterpreted so as to afford it a genuine basis.
It is taken for granted that love can only serve the purpose of the species; the fact that this theory is both metaphysically and scientifically unsound is ignored.
The anchoring of the subjective in the eternal was achieved in this metaphysical setting: the deification of the beloved; and no greater gift was ever vouchsafed to man than the creation of metaphysically true beings and values.
Psychologically and metaphysically considered, what are conscious action and volition?
The new method takes effect in substituting inquiry into these specific, changing and relative facts (relative to problems and purposes, not metaphysically relative) for solemn manipulation of general notions.
It would be as inclusive and far-reaching metaphysically as tradition had been socially.
They are not inherentmetaphysically in the very nature of experience.
One may say in general that some look upon God more metaphysically and others more morally: and it has already been stated on other occasions that the Counter-Remonstrants took the first course and the Remonstrants the second.
But if the metaphysically real units of the body are of the nature of mind, then the mind is a mind among minds, a spirit-atom among spirit-atoms.
God chose between different courses all possible: thus, metaphysically speaking, he could have chosen or done what was not the best; but he could not morally speaking have done so.
The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes: and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false.
The metaphysical jurist reached a principle metaphysically and deduced property therefrom.
Natural rights were deductions from a fundamental metaphysically demonstrable datum of individual free will, and natural law was an ideal critique of positive law whereby to secure these rights in their integrity.
When the elements are secured which operate successfully, the non-interfering connections can be ignored and the elements can be treated as if they did not have them,--as if they were metaphysically simple.
Even in a single, metaphysically spiritual and unchanging world, man himself may still be less than a metaphysical absolute and his proper individuality doomed to absorption, his wishes to obstruction and frustration.
The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes; and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false.
Something was under discussion, and my grandfather could make nothing of it; but the Doctor said it was "metaphysically true.
Such was the ubiquity of the emperor that this was metaphysically hopeless.
The ranks of the Immortals are filled with persons metaphysically engendered.
Otherwise it is said to be physically impossible, even thoughmetaphysically or intrinsically possible, e.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "metaphysically" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
