The metaphysician who looks for a closely reasoned argument on the famous old question which so divided the schoolmen of old will find a very moderate satisfaction in the Essay entitled "Nominalism and Realism.
Such was the specific which the great metaphysician recommended for averting and curing all manner of diseases.
Doctor said, with that shade of curiosity in his tone which a metaphysician would probably say is an index of a certain tendency to belief in the superstition to which the question refers.
For the rest there is Vladimir Soloviev, who is a poet-metaphysician with a following.
The pupil who had vanquished the most celebrated metaphysician of his generation, now at the first onset eclipsed the greatest theologian in Europe.
But seventy years ago it would have been the exception to find an orthodox metaphysician who did admit it; and Lockhart, or rather Baron von Lauerwinkel, was perfectly justified in taking the view which ordinary opinion took.
He was not so great a metaphysician as he thought himself.
But the Metaphysician has to leave himself a few words, to speak with.
But the effect on the Metaphysician of contemplating such a condition of the Universe is fatal to reasoning, and may easily produce suspension of the faculties.
In the invention of his theory the metaphysician gives his measure, and permits us to value his imaginative power.
Every metaphysician has a point of view, a personal way of contemplating and interpreting the totality of things, a belief that tends to recruit adherents.
V It does not seem to me wrong to regard the imagination of the metaphysicianas a variety of the scientific imagination.
This declaration of a metaphysician saves us from dwelling on the subject long.
The metaphysician Rashik Lall sneered to Vaiswata the poet, who passed on the look to the theo-philosopher Vardhaman.
The noblestmetaphysician of them all," Ernest laughed.
The metaphysician reasons from theory to facts, the scientist reasons from facts to theory.
The metaphysician explains the universe by himself, the scientist explains himself by the universe.
You can prove anything by metaphysics; and having done so, every metaphysician can prove every othermetaphysician wrong--to his own satisfaction.
The metaphysician reasons deductively out of his own subjectivity.
Hence, the metaphysician is bound to explain how things material differ from things immaterial, and has to ascertain what metaphysical predicates are attributable to material substance on account of its very materiality.
Here now is a gage of battle cast at the feet of whoever wishes to take it up, be the same logician, metaphysician or theologian.
The poet composes verses in his sleep; the mathematician examines his diagram; and the metaphysician reasons well or ill; of all which there are striking examples.
Notwithstanding the persuasive rhetoric of that silken sophist Henri Bergson, a belated visionary metaphysician in a world of realities, the trend of latter-day thought is toward the veritable victories of science.
I have had a letter from Lloyd; the young metaphysicianof Caius is well, and is busy recanting the new heresy, metaphysics, for the old dogma, Greek.
Shall we, therefore, assent to the imperialistic policy of mathematicians who would fain usurp the preserves of the metaphysicianin order that they may exploit a superfoetated hypothesis?
Coleridge was absent, and missed making his acquaintance--a circumstance he afterwards regretted, saying that he could have been more useful to the young poet and metaphysician than Southey.
In his capacity of social reformer, Pierre Leroux, a metaphysician with a noble heart and a confused brain, who thought in triads in the manner of Schelling, championed equality and progress.
Beyle is the metaphysician among the French authors of his day, as Leonardo was the metaphysician among the great painters of the Renaissance.
He was a metaphysician by nature, but he erred in speculating with theology.
Its conclusion startled the great German metaphysician Kant and roused him to action.
A metaphysician who transcends the intellect by his reason can be conceived only as using his imagination to such good purpose as to divine by it the ideal laws of reality or the ultimate goals of moral effort.
To these grounds of influence may be added, so far as his influence on English thought is concerned, the fact that he was not a metaphysician in a positive fashion, though he dealt largely with metaphysical topics.
Nevertheless, the far different opinion of his standing as a metaphysician which his critics entertain is undoubtedly more correct, though in a sense which was not so clearly apparent to him.
As the metaphysician carries within himself the materials of his reasoning, he is not under a necessity of looking abroad for subjects of speculation or amusement.
One of these conditions is essential to all inductive science; but neither of them does the metaphysician obey.
Every metaphysician and theologian should get this sentence by heart: 'That we have first raised a dust, and then complain we cannot see.
This is the direct opposite of the historical method; the metaphysician studying one mind, the historian studying many minds.
After the metaphysician has taken for granted that, by studying one mind, he can discover the laws of all minds, he finds himself involved in a singular difficulty as soon as he begins to apply even this imperfect method.
John Scotus, who, it is almost needless to say, must not be confounded with the still more famous metaphysician Duns Scotus, lived under Charles the Bald, in the middle of the ninth century.
These inquiries indeed were subject to the ordeal of fire, the great purifier of books and men; for if the metaphysician stood a chance of being burned as a heretic, the natural philosopher was in not less jeopardy as a magician.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "metaphysician" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: philosopher; sophist; speculator; thinker
