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Sample text: Finally, therefore, living processes are radically indeterminate; like all other living organisms, but to an even greater degree, we make our own future, though in circumstances not of our own choosing.
 
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| <center>'''Metaphysics''':&nbsp;In its main entry for ‘metaphysics’, the Oxford English Dictionary  (2nd ed.) gives four ways in which the word has been used:<ref name=oedmetaphysics>[http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/117355?redirectedFrom=metaphysics "metaphysics". Oxford English Dictionary. 3rd Online Edition.]  Oxford University Press. | Online access requires subscription.</ref></center>
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'''Metaphysics''' (from [[Greek language|Greek]]: ''μετά (meta)'' = "after", ''φύσις (phúsis)'' = "nature") is the branch of [[philosophy]] concerned with explaining the nature of the [[World_(philosophy)|world]]. It is the study of [[being]] or [[reality]].<ref name ="BECA">Geisler, Norman L. "Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics" page 446. Baker Books, 1999</ref> It addresses questions such as: What is the nature of [[reality]]? [[Existence of God|Is there a]] [[God]]? What is man's place in the [[universe]]?


A central branch of metaphysics is [[ontology]], the investigation into what [[category of being|categories]] of things are in the world and what relations these things bear to one another. The metaphysician also attempts to clarify the notions by which people understand the world, including [[existence]], [[object (philosophy)|objecthood]], [[property (philosophy)|property]], [[space]], [[time]], [[causality]], and [[possibility]].


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More recently, the term "metaphysics" has also been used to refer to subjects which are thought to be beyond the physical world. A "metaphysical bookstore," for instance, is not one that sells books on academic treatments of ontology, but rather one that sells books on [[spiritualism]], [[spirit]]s, [[faith healing]], [[crystal power]], [[occultism]], or [[Wicca]]. Such stores are typically stocked with an array of Eastern or "[[New Age]]" philosophy such as [[Theosophy]], Western esoteric writings such as Rosicrucian texts, hybrids of East/West such as [[Alice Bailey]], and often purely Eastern writings such as [[Patanjali]].
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  1. ↑ Rose S. (1999) Précis of Lifelines: Biology, freedom, determinism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 22:871-921. PMID 11301572.
    • From Abstract:
    • DNA is not a blueprint, and the four dimensions of life (three of space, one of time) cannot be read off from its one-dimensional strand.
    • Both developmental and evolutionary processes are more than merely instructive or selective; the organism constructs itself, a process known as autopoiesis, through a lifeline trajectory.
    • Because organisms are thermodynamically open systems, living processes are homeodynamic, not homeostatic.
    • The self-organising membrane-bound and energy-utilising metabolic web of the cell must have evolved prior to socalled naked replicators.
    • Evolution is constrained by physics, chemistry, and structure; not all change is powered by natural selection, and not all phenotypes are adaptive.
    • Finally, therefore, living processes are radically indeterminate; like all other living organisms, but to an even greater degree, we make our own future, though in circumstances not of our own choosing.

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Metaphysics: In its main entry for ‘metaphysics’, the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed.) gives four ways in which the word has been used:[1]
a. The branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things or reality, including questions about being, substance, time and space, causation, change, and identity (which are presupposed in the special sciences but do not belong to any one of them); theoretical philosophy as the ultimate science of being and knowing.
a1620 M. Fotherby: The Metaphysickes, considering the pure essence of things. | 1739 D. Hume: So far from being able by our senses merely to determine this question, we must have recourse to the most profound metaphysics to give a satisfactory answer to it.
b. The study of phenomena beyond the scope of scientific inquiry.
c. Questions of metaphysics as they relate to a specified subject or phenomenon; the underlying concepts or first principles on which a particular branch of knowledge is based. Usu. with of.
1790 E. Burke: I have nothing to say to the clumsy subtilty of their political metaphysics. | 1958 W. Stark: A metasociology which would be, not a metaphysics, in so far as metaphysics is divorced from the empirical, but a study of man as he appears in all societies.
d. Philos. Used by logical positivists and some other linguistic philosophers for: any proposition or set of propositions of a speculative nature, considered to be meaningless because not empirically verifiable.
1937 A. Smeaton tr. R. Carnap: The sentences of metaphysics are pseudo-sentences which on logical analysis are proved to be either empty phrases or phrases which violate the rules of syntax. | 1956 J. O. Urmson: The view of Wittgenstein that metaphysics was not merely outdated as the old positivism had it, but was a logically impossible enterprise, being excluded by the essential nature of language.
NB: See the entry in the Oxford English Dictionary for sources of the examples and for additional examples.[1]

Metaphysics (from Greek: μετά (meta) = "after", φύσις (phúsis) = "nature") is the branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the nature of the world. It is the study of being or reality.[2] It addresses questions such as: What is the nature of reality? Is there a God? What is man's place in the universe?

A central branch of metaphysics is ontology, the investigation into what categories of things are in the world and what relations these things bear to one another. The metaphysician also attempts to clarify the notions by which people understand the world, including existence, objecthood, property, space, time, causality, and possibility.

More recently, the term "metaphysics" has also been used to refer to subjects which are thought to be beyond the physical world. A "metaphysical bookstore," for instance, is not one that sells books on academic treatments of ontology, but rather one that sells books on spiritualism, spirits, faith healing, crystal power, occultism, or Wicca. Such stores are typically stocked with an array of Eastern or "New Age" philosophy such as Theosophy, Western esoteric writings such as Rosicrucian texts, hybrids of East/West such as Alice Bailey, and often purely Eastern writings such as Patanjali.

References

  1. ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 "metaphysics". Oxford English Dictionary. 3rd Online Edition. Oxford University Press. | Online access requires subscription.
  2. ↑ Geisler, Norman L. "Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics" page 446. Baker Books, 1999


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