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Some
people argue that the term ‘metaphysics’ comes simply from the title of a work
of Aristole. His book subsequent to the physics…the metaphysics…simply meaning beyond,
after, or above the physics. It has however come to mean also, foundational or ‘first
philosophy’, which in the case of Aristotle dealt with the central question of
being – almost identical with the idea of substance. In Descartes’ Principles
of Philosophy’ he structures the whole of philosophy like atree, where the
roots are metaphysics, the trunk represents physics with its branches
representing the other sciences. For Liebniz too, the principles of mechanics
&c flow from metaphyscial prinicples.
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Chris
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Metaphysics: multiple meanings (discussion
on different ways metaphysics can be understood i.e. as designation of nature
of reality, or posting of something beyond reality) |
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