Definition of metaphysical in English:

metaphysical

adjective mɛtəˈfɪzɪk(ə)lˌmɛdəˈfɪzək(ə)l

1Relating to metaphysics.
形而上学的，玄学的
the essentially metaphysical question of the nature of mind
有关思维本质的根本性形而上学问题。
Example sentencesExamples
- In the 17th century this question sparked a furious metaphysical and scientific controversy on the existence, nature and measure of force.
- Clearly, whether that inference is valid or not turns on a metaphysical question about the identity of persons and minds.
- It has unlimited potential to explore all sorts of metaphysical and moral questions, but it is not doing that.
- So, for Heidegger, the nothing that opens in the experience of anxiety leads one to pose the metaphysical question as to the meaning of being.
- As that great deflator of metaphysical questions, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, taught us, the meaning of a term is fixed by the community that uses it.
- On this metaphysical question, I agree with William James and many contemporary thinkers that free will and determinism are incompatible.
- Thus Triodes unwillingly reinforces the Heideggerian fallacy that mythic or metaphysical registers are directly generative of social programmes.
- At every stage of life, Wharton searched in religion and philosophy for answers to pressing metaphysical and ontological questions.
- It drew out metaphysical questions as it prompted the Futurist to focus on the movement or temporality inherent in things, and hence the instability of the geophysical world, its objects and its events.
- However, Condillac had no right to simply-side step the metaphysical question of the nature of body.
- However, the very strength of such an epistemological claim makes it difficult to assume with begging the metaphysical result in question.
- Perhaps Kant was correct when he said that although we can never hope to answer our metaphysical questions, we can't help asking them anyway.
- This is a remarkable argument, whereby Davidson derives a metaphysical conclusion concerning the physical nature of mental states from premisses which concern their causal role.
- This metaphysical question has been much discussed.
- The pursuit of such metaphysical questions is just a high-minded distraction from the more pressing issue of confronting the dilemma of one's existence here and now.
- The traditional concept of free will enters the mainstream of Western Philosophy in metaphysical questions about human responsibility for moral behavior.
- It begins to appear that the metaphysical question of determinism is quite irrelevant to the rationality of our ascription of responsibility.
- However, especially for those of us who find such metaphysical disputes sterile, questions about the paranormal have a very important part to play in the debate.
- Euripides' Electra ironically questions belief in a metaphysical system that encourages crime only to punish it.
1. 1.1 Based on abstract reasoning.
  an empiricist rather than a metaphysical view of law
  关于法律的经验主义的而非形而上学的观点。
  Example sentencesExamples
  If so, the whole identity issue is undecidable, since one is demanding metaphysical answers to questions that are in large part semantical.
  In light of that conviction, what could be taken as a purely metaphysical question becomes much more practical: Where is the church in these terrible events?
  Again, we find no reason to suppose that metaphysical issues can be cleanly detached from epistemological concerns.
  Given this view of the progressive metaphysical appropriation of ontology as a wrong turn, Heidegger has no choice but go back to the start and take another fork in the road.
  This study shows that throughout his life, the Guru did not indulge in metaphysical abstractions or recondite analysis of various religious thoughts.
  And even if it could somehow be shown that the evil of such events is ‘unreal’ in some abstract metaphysical sense, would that take away the reality of our feeling that it was evil?
  His enduring little classic, The Problems of Philosophy, sketches the metaphysical and epistemological views he then held.
  I think that the two types of cosmology, that is religious cosmology based on a metaphysical vision or view of the universe and modern cosmology, should not be confused.
  Some attacked his announcement, for example Smith who used a metaphysical argument based on the simplicity of the inverse square law.
  Her first collection of poems interrogates the nature of physical and the metaphysical knowledge.
  Mediation between Christianity and Greek philosophy must substitute a metaphysical Plato for an aporetic inquiring Socrates.
  This, in turn, is based on the metaphysical assumption that the universe is harmonious and coherent.
  Our situation is something like the one to which we are assigned by a considerable number of metaphysical philosophers, notably Plato.
  As an woman whose very life is jeopardized by the laws of the land, she responds to a different set of constraints, more material than metaphysical.
  As noted earlier, we do not ally ourselves with any specific metaphysical view or theoretical system, and prefer a bottom-up approach.
  What is this metaphysical view about free will that I wish to attack?
  They'll agree to explain the properties we're talking about in scientific terms, and still insist that their metaphysical questions remain.
  It is to this problem that Kant addressed himself, producing the most metaphysical and abstract basis that has ever been given for the common intuitions of morality.
  Curry concedes that some intuition is involved in this meta-mathematics, but he claims that the metaphysical nature of this intuition is irrelevant.
  And then we are faced with the difficult metaphysical question of whether such a universe is really possible.
  It could be argued that the inverted spectrum hypothesis is incoherent for deep metaphysical and empirical reasons.
  Synonyms
  abstract, theoretical, conceptual, notional, philosophical, speculative, intellectual, academic
  unpractical, abstruse, recondite
2. 1.2 Transcending physical matter or the laws of nature.
  超自然的；超物质的
  Good and Evil are inextricably linked in a metaphysical battle across space and time
  善与恶在超时空的形而上学的斗争中密不可分。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The essay is a reflection by Nancy on the physical and metaphysical fallout of the heart transplant he had received ten years previously.
  I think most New Zealanders would agree that it is appropriate to consider spiritual and metaphysical matters as part of a consent process.
  In the hands of Velázquez, the existence of a jester could have the same physical - and metaphysical - scale as that of an aristocrat.
  And an immersion in his oeuvre is an effective cure for many chronic ailments of a metaphysical nature that one might suffer.
  For Hopkins is not so much invoking the metaphysical potential of nature, and its capacity to typify states of mind, as he is making a conservationist plea.
  Now it is the confused management of metaphysical and spiritual matters.
  There is no dematerialization, no aura: the glow rides the surface, more physical than metaphysical.
  Systems of thought that are fundamentally metaphysical in nature are not testable and can therefore never be proven incorrect.
  Somehow this bunny seemed more physical and less metaphysical.
  It is only then that the union of the physical and the metaphysical becomes complete, and the body does what the mind tells it to do.
  These belief assumptions, of course, do raise truth claims of a metaphysical nature, but the way goes from within and out, and not the other way around.
  But either way, ID is a metaphysical explanation by its nature, not merely by its implications.
  With the dual sensations of both physical and metaphysical pleasure, it was extremely difficult not to moan his ecstasy aloud.
  Even as intellectuals dismiss the nation-space as a metaphysical concept, a transcendent notion, countless people across the world die and kill in the name of a nation.
  Understanding the metaphysical through the physical or searching for the Reality behind the Appearance, constitutes the basic concept of the religious quest of the Bouls.
  Here, in language, & still more in logic, we are point blank at issue - There is a moral or metaphysical part of nature as well as a physical.
  David is not a character of merit or interest, no matter what metaphysical hoops he is forced through.
  By the end of his journey - both physical and metaphysical - our tycoon will become the title character.
  The explanation for this is that physicians are ‘healers’ much in demand in dramas about physical, moral, metaphysical evil.
  But the fact is, when I was a kid in Los Angeles, I was surrounded by numerous studies of a metaphysical nature; it was just part of life there.
  Synonyms
  transcendental, spiritual, supernatural, paranormal
  extramundane, unearthly, ethereal, incorporeal
2Of or characteristic of the metaphysical poets.
玄学派诗人的；玄学派诗人特有的
Example sentencesExamples
- On one level there is the English metaphysical tradition perhaps best exemplified by John Donne.
- John Donne, metaphysical poetry, ovarian cancer and chemotherapy might not normally suggest an entertaining night at the theatre.

noun mɛtəˈfɪzɪk(ə)lˌmɛdəˈfɪzək(ə)l

The metaphysical poets.
玄学派诗人
Example sentencesExamples
- Or Eliot, who wrote on the Metaphysicals, Marvell, Dryden, Blake, Wordsworth, Baudelaire and, of course, Dante, as well as many other writers.
- Compared to men, women were Metaphysicals, Donnes and Marvells of brain and heart.
- And in the beginning of reading poetry, for me it was in the thirties, and I - and everybody was reading Metaphysicals, Donne and so forth.
- The Metaphysicals and the Elizabethans are clearly still read with devotion.
- Duncan's poetry of the forties and fifties is massively influenced by the Metaphysicals.

Derivatives

metaphysically
玄学派诗人

adverb

It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed.
Example sentencesExamples
- This distinctions are more meaningful to me psychologically and linguistically than they are metaphysically.
- It would seem that these contemporaries of the fun society paint its dark side and all its ruptures so appealingly that they talk to the metaphysically homeless from the soul.
- Fog came to mean something in London, and as such is made available aesthetically rather than metaphysically.
- I can't say I think one way is metaphysically better than the other.

Rhymes

physical, quizzical

Definition of metaphysical in US English:

metaphysical

adjectiveˌmɛdəˈfɪzək(ə)lˌmedəˈfizək(ə)l

1Relating to metaphysics.
形而上学的，玄学的
the essentially metaphysical question of the nature of the mind
有关思维本质的根本性形而上学问题。
Example sentencesExamples
- In the 17th century this question sparked a furious metaphysical and scientific controversy on the existence, nature and measure of force.
- It drew out metaphysical questions as it prompted the Futurist to focus on the movement or temporality inherent in things, and hence the instability of the geophysical world, its objects and its events.
- The traditional concept of free will enters the mainstream of Western Philosophy in metaphysical questions about human responsibility for moral behavior.
- This metaphysical question has been much discussed.
- However, especially for those of us who find such metaphysical disputes sterile, questions about the paranormal have a very important part to play in the debate.
- On this metaphysical question, I agree with William James and many contemporary thinkers that free will and determinism are incompatible.
- Thus Triodes unwillingly reinforces the Heideggerian fallacy that mythic or metaphysical registers are directly generative of social programmes.
- As that great deflator of metaphysical questions, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, taught us, the meaning of a term is fixed by the community that uses it.
- Perhaps Kant was correct when he said that although we can never hope to answer our metaphysical questions, we can't help asking them anyway.
- So, for Heidegger, the nothing that opens in the experience of anxiety leads one to pose the metaphysical question as to the meaning of being.
- The pursuit of such metaphysical questions is just a high-minded distraction from the more pressing issue of confronting the dilemma of one's existence here and now.
- Euripides' Electra ironically questions belief in a metaphysical system that encourages crime only to punish it.
- It has unlimited potential to explore all sorts of metaphysical and moral questions, but it is not doing that.
- Clearly, whether that inference is valid or not turns on a metaphysical question about the identity of persons and minds.
- However, the very strength of such an epistemological claim makes it difficult to assume with begging the metaphysical result in question.
- At every stage of life, Wharton searched in religion and philosophy for answers to pressing metaphysical and ontological questions.
- This is a remarkable argument, whereby Davidson derives a metaphysical conclusion concerning the physical nature of mental states from premisses which concern their causal role.
- However, Condillac had no right to simply-side step the metaphysical question of the nature of body.
- It begins to appear that the metaphysical question of determinism is quite irrelevant to the rationality of our ascription of responsibility.
1. 1.1 Based on abstract (typically, excessively abstract) reasoning.
  抽象推理的；高度抽象的
  an empiricist rather than a metaphysical view of law
  关于法律的经验主义的而非形而上学的观点。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They'll agree to explain the properties we're talking about in scientific terms, and still insist that their metaphysical questions remain.
  And even if it could somehow be shown that the evil of such events is ‘unreal’ in some abstract metaphysical sense, would that take away the reality of our feeling that it was evil?
  Her first collection of poems interrogates the nature of physical and the metaphysical knowledge.
  And then we are faced with the difficult metaphysical question of whether such a universe is really possible.
  As an woman whose very life is jeopardized by the laws of the land, she responds to a different set of constraints, more material than metaphysical.
  Mediation between Christianity and Greek philosophy must substitute a metaphysical Plato for an aporetic inquiring Socrates.
  Given this view of the progressive metaphysical appropriation of ontology as a wrong turn, Heidegger has no choice but go back to the start and take another fork in the road.
  His enduring little classic, The Problems of Philosophy, sketches the metaphysical and epistemological views he then held.
  I think that the two types of cosmology, that is religious cosmology based on a metaphysical vision or view of the universe and modern cosmology, should not be confused.
  This study shows that throughout his life, the Guru did not indulge in metaphysical abstractions or recondite analysis of various religious thoughts.
  It is to this problem that Kant addressed himself, producing the most metaphysical and abstract basis that has ever been given for the common intuitions of morality.
  What is this metaphysical view about free will that I wish to attack?
  It could be argued that the inverted spectrum hypothesis is incoherent for deep metaphysical and empirical reasons.
  Some attacked his announcement, for example Smith who used a metaphysical argument based on the simplicity of the inverse square law.
  If so, the whole identity issue is undecidable, since one is demanding metaphysical answers to questions that are in large part semantical.
  In light of that conviction, what could be taken as a purely metaphysical question becomes much more practical: Where is the church in these terrible events?
  Curry concedes that some intuition is involved in this meta-mathematics, but he claims that the metaphysical nature of this intuition is irrelevant.
  This, in turn, is based on the metaphysical assumption that the universe is harmonious and coherent.
  Our situation is something like the one to which we are assigned by a considerable number of metaphysical philosophers, notably Plato.
  As noted earlier, we do not ally ourselves with any specific metaphysical view or theoretical system, and prefer a bottom-up approach.
  Again, we find no reason to suppose that metaphysical issues can be cleanly detached from epistemological concerns.
  Synonyms
  abstract, theoretical, conceptual, notional, philosophical, speculative, intellectual, academic
2. 1.2 Transcending physical matter or the laws of nature.
  超自然的；超物质的
  Good and Evil are inextricably linked in a metaphysical battle across space and time
  善与恶在超时空的形而上学的斗争中密不可分。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The explanation for this is that physicians are ‘healers’ much in demand in dramas about physical, moral, metaphysical evil.
  I think most New Zealanders would agree that it is appropriate to consider spiritual and metaphysical matters as part of a consent process.
  With the dual sensations of both physical and metaphysical pleasure, it was extremely difficult not to moan his ecstasy aloud.
  Here, in language, & still more in logic, we are point blank at issue - There is a moral or metaphysical part of nature as well as a physical.
  The essay is a reflection by Nancy on the physical and metaphysical fallout of the heart transplant he had received ten years previously.
  Somehow this bunny seemed more physical and less metaphysical.
  Understanding the metaphysical through the physical or searching for the Reality behind the Appearance, constitutes the basic concept of the religious quest of the Bouls.
  And an immersion in his oeuvre is an effective cure for many chronic ailments of a metaphysical nature that one might suffer.
  Even as intellectuals dismiss the nation-space as a metaphysical concept, a transcendent notion, countless people across the world die and kill in the name of a nation.
  It is only then that the union of the physical and the metaphysical becomes complete, and the body does what the mind tells it to do.
  Now it is the confused management of metaphysical and spiritual matters.
  For Hopkins is not so much invoking the metaphysical potential of nature, and its capacity to typify states of mind, as he is making a conservationist plea.
  In the hands of Velázquez, the existence of a jester could have the same physical - and metaphysical - scale as that of an aristocrat.
  David is not a character of merit or interest, no matter what metaphysical hoops he is forced through.
  By the end of his journey - both physical and metaphysical - our tycoon will become the title character.
  But either way, ID is a metaphysical explanation by its nature, not merely by its implications.
  But the fact is, when I was a kid in Los Angeles, I was surrounded by numerous studies of a metaphysical nature; it was just part of life there.
  Systems of thought that are fundamentally metaphysical in nature are not testable and can therefore never be proven incorrect.
  These belief assumptions, of course, do raise truth claims of a metaphysical nature, but the way goes from within and out, and not the other way around.
  There is no dematerialization, no aura: the glow rides the surface, more physical than metaphysical.
  Synonyms
  transcendental, spiritual, supernatural, paranormal
2Of or characteristic of the metaphysical poets.
玄学派诗人的；玄学派诗人特有的
Example sentencesExamples
- On one level there is the English metaphysical tradition perhaps best exemplified by John Donne.
- John Donne, metaphysical poetry, ovarian cancer and chemotherapy might not normally suggest an entertaining night at the theatre.

nounˌmɛdəˈfɪzək(ə)lˌmedəˈfizək(ə)l

the Metaphysicals

The metaphysical poets.
玄学派诗人
Example sentencesExamples
- Or Eliot, who wrote on the Metaphysicals, Marvell, Dryden, Blake, Wordsworth, Baudelaire and, of course, Dante, as well as many other writers.
- Duncan's poetry of the forties and fifties is massively influenced by the Metaphysicals.
- The Metaphysicals and the Elizabethans are clearly still read with devotion.
- Compared to men, women were Metaphysicals, Donnes and Marvells of brain and heart.
- And in the beginning of reading poetry, for me it was in the thirties, and I - and everybody was reading Metaphysicals, Donne and so forth.

单词	metaphysical
释义	Definition of metaphysical in English: metaphysical adjective mɛtəˈfɪzɪk(ə)lˌmɛdəˈfɪzək(ə)l 1Relating to metaphysics. 形而上学的，玄学的 the essentially metaphysical question of the nature of mind 有关思维本质的根本性形而上学问题。 Example sentencesExamples In the 17th century this question sparked a furious metaphysical and scientific controversy on the existence, nature and measure of force. Clearly, whether that inference is valid or not turns on a metaphysical question about the identity of persons and minds. It has unlimited potential to explore all sorts of metaphysical and moral questions, but it is not doing that. So, for Heidegger, the nothing that opens in the experience of anxiety leads one to pose the metaphysical question as to the meaning of being. As that great deflator of metaphysical questions, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, taught us, the meaning of a term is fixed by the community that uses it. On this metaphysical question, I agree with William James and many contemporary thinkers that free will and determinism are incompatible. Thus Triodes unwillingly reinforces the Heideggerian fallacy that mythic or metaphysical registers are directly generative of social programmes. At every stage of life, Wharton searched in religion and philosophy for answers to pressing metaphysical and ontological questions. It drew out metaphysical questions as it prompted the Futurist to focus on the movement or temporality inherent in things, and hence the instability of the geophysical world, its objects and its events. However, Condillac had no right to simply-side step the metaphysical question of the nature of body. However, the very strength of such an epistemological claim makes it difficult to assume with begging the metaphysical result in question. Perhaps Kant was correct when he said that although we can never hope to answer our metaphysical questions, we can't help asking them anyway. This is a remarkable argument, whereby Davidson derives a metaphysical conclusion concerning the physical nature of mental states from premisses which concern their causal role. This metaphysical question has been much discussed. The pursuit of such metaphysical questions is just a high-minded distraction from the more pressing issue of confronting the dilemma of one's existence here and now. The traditional concept of free will enters the mainstream of Western Philosophy in metaphysical questions about human responsibility for moral behavior. It begins to appear that the metaphysical question of determinism is quite irrelevant to the rationality of our ascription of responsibility. However, especially for those of us who find such metaphysical disputes sterile, questions about the paranormal have a very important part to play in the debate. Euripides' Electra ironically questions belief in a metaphysical system that encourages crime only to punish it. 1.1 Based on abstract reasoning. an empiricist rather than a metaphysical view of law 关于法律的经验主义的而非形而上学的观点。 Example sentencesExamples If so, the whole identity issue is undecidable, since one is demanding metaphysical answers to questions that are in large part semantical. In light of that conviction, what could be taken as a purely metaphysical question becomes much more practical: Where is the church in these terrible events? Again, we find no reason to suppose that metaphysical issues can be cleanly detached from epistemological concerns. Given this view of the progressive metaphysical appropriation of ontology as a wrong turn, Heidegger has no choice but go back to the start and take another fork in the road. This study shows that throughout his life, the Guru did not indulge in metaphysical abstractions or recondite analysis of various religious thoughts. And even if it could somehow be shown that the evil of such events is ‘unreal’ in some abstract metaphysical sense, would that take away the reality of our feeling that it was evil? His enduring little classic, The Problems of Philosophy, sketches the metaphysical and epistemological views he then held. I think that the two types of cosmology, that is religious cosmology based on a metaphysical vision or view of the universe and modern cosmology, should not be confused. Some attacked his announcement, for example Smith who used a metaphysical argument based on the simplicity of the inverse square law. Her first collection of poems interrogates the nature of physical and the metaphysical knowledge. Mediation between Christianity and Greek philosophy must substitute a metaphysical Plato for an aporetic inquiring Socrates. This, in turn, is based on the metaphysical assumption that the universe is harmonious and coherent. Our situation is something like the one to which we are assigned by a considerable number of metaphysical philosophers, notably Plato. As an woman whose very life is jeopardized by the laws of the land, she responds to a different set of constraints, more material than metaphysical. As noted earlier, we do not ally ourselves with any specific metaphysical view or theoretical system, and prefer a bottom-up approach. What is this metaphysical view about free will that I wish to attack? They'll agree to explain the properties we're talking about in scientific terms, and still insist that their metaphysical questions remain. It is to this problem that Kant addressed himself, producing the most metaphysical and abstract basis that has ever been given for the common intuitions of morality. Curry concedes that some intuition is involved in this meta-mathematics, but he claims that the metaphysical nature of this intuition is irrelevant. And then we are faced with the difficult metaphysical question of whether such a universe is really possible. It could be argued that the inverted spectrum hypothesis is incoherent for deep metaphysical and empirical reasons. Synonyms abstract, theoretical, conceptual, notional, philosophical, speculative, intellectual, academic unpractical, abstruse, recondite 1.2 Transcending physical matter or the laws of nature. 超自然的；超物质的 Good and Evil are inextricably linked in a metaphysical battle across space and time 善与恶在超时空的形而上学的斗争中密不可分。 Example sentencesExamples The essay is a reflection by Nancy on the physical and metaphysical fallout of the heart transplant he had received ten years previously. I think most New Zealanders would agree that it is appropriate to consider spiritual and metaphysical matters as part of a consent process. In the hands of Velázquez, the existence of a jester could have the same physical - and metaphysical - scale as that of an aristocrat. And an immersion in his oeuvre is an effective cure for many chronic ailments of a metaphysical nature that one might suffer. For Hopkins is not so much invoking the metaphysical potential of nature, and its capacity to typify states of mind, as he is making a conservationist plea. Now it is the confused management of metaphysical and spiritual matters. There is no dematerialization, no aura: the glow rides the surface, more physical than metaphysical. Systems of thought that are fundamentally metaphysical in nature are not testable and can therefore never be proven incorrect. Somehow this bunny seemed more physical and less metaphysical. It is only then that the union of the physical and the metaphysical becomes complete, and the body does what the mind tells it to do. These belief assumptions, of course, do raise truth claims of a metaphysical nature, but the way goes from within and out, and not the other way around. But either way, ID is a metaphysical explanation by its nature, not merely by its implications. With the dual sensations of both physical and metaphysical pleasure, it was extremely difficult not to moan his ecstasy aloud. Even as intellectuals dismiss the nation-space as a metaphysical concept, a transcendent notion, countless people across the world die and kill in the name of a nation. Understanding the metaphysical through the physical or searching for the Reality behind the Appearance, constitutes the basic concept of the religious quest of the Bouls. Here, in language, & still more in logic, we are point blank at issue - There is a moral or metaphysical part of nature as well as a physical. David is not a character of merit or interest, no matter what metaphysical hoops he is forced through. By the end of his journey - both physical and metaphysical - our tycoon will become the title character. The explanation for this is that physicians are ‘healers’ much in demand in dramas about physical, moral, metaphysical evil. But the fact is, when I was a kid in Los Angeles, I was surrounded by numerous studies of a metaphysical nature; it was just part of life there. Synonyms transcendental, spiritual, supernatural, paranormal extramundane, unearthly, ethereal, incorporeal 2Of or characteristic of the metaphysical poets. 玄学派诗人的；玄学派诗人特有的 Example sentencesExamples On one level there is the English metaphysical tradition perhaps best exemplified by John Donne. John Donne, metaphysical poetry, ovarian cancer and chemotherapy might not normally suggest an entertaining night at the theatre. noun mɛtəˈfɪzɪk(ə)lˌmɛdəˈfɪzək(ə)l The metaphysical poets. 玄学派诗人 Example sentencesExamples Or Eliot, who wrote on the Metaphysicals, Marvell, Dryden, Blake, Wordsworth, Baudelaire and, of course, Dante, as well as many other writers. Compared to men, women were Metaphysicals, Donnes and Marvells of brain and heart. And in the beginning of reading poetry, for me it was in the thirties, and I - and everybody was reading Metaphysicals, Donne and so forth. The Metaphysicals and the Elizabethans are clearly still read with devotion. Duncan's poetry of the forties and fifties is massively influenced by the Metaphysicals. Derivatives metaphysically 玄学派诗人 adverb It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. Example sentencesExamples This distinctions are more meaningful to me psychologically and linguistically than they are metaphysically. It would seem that these contemporaries of the fun society paint its dark side and all its ruptures so appealingly that they talk to the metaphysically homeless from the soul. Fog came to mean something in London, and as such is made available aesthetically rather than metaphysically. I can't say I think one way is metaphysically better than the other. Rhymes physical, quizzical Definition of metaphysical in US English: metaphysical adjectiveˌmɛdəˈfɪzək(ə)lˌmedəˈfizək(ə)l 1Relating to metaphysics. 形而上学的，玄学的 the essentially metaphysical question of the nature of the mind 有关思维本质的根本性形而上学问题。 Example sentencesExamples In the 17th century this question sparked a furious metaphysical and scientific controversy on the existence, nature and measure of force. It drew out metaphysical questions as it prompted the Futurist to focus on the movement or temporality inherent in things, and hence the instability of the geophysical world, its objects and its events. The traditional concept of free will enters the mainstream of Western Philosophy in metaphysical questions about human responsibility for moral behavior. This metaphysical question has been much discussed. However, especially for those of us who find such metaphysical disputes sterile, questions about the paranormal have a very important part to play in the debate. On this metaphysical question, I agree with William James and many contemporary thinkers that free will and determinism are incompatible. Thus Triodes unwillingly reinforces the Heideggerian fallacy that mythic or metaphysical registers are directly generative of social programmes. As that great deflator of metaphysical questions, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, taught us, the meaning of a term is fixed by the community that uses it. Perhaps Kant was correct when he said that although we can never hope to answer our metaphysical questions, we can't help asking them anyway. So, for Heidegger, the nothing that opens in the experience of anxiety leads one to pose the metaphysical question as to the meaning of being. The pursuit of such metaphysical questions is just a high-minded distraction from the more pressing issue of confronting the dilemma of one's existence here and now. Euripides' Electra ironically questions belief in a metaphysical system that encourages crime only to punish it. It has unlimited potential to explore all sorts of metaphysical and moral questions, but it is not doing that. Clearly, whether that inference is valid or not turns on a metaphysical question about the identity of persons and minds. However, the very strength of such an epistemological claim makes it difficult to assume with begging the metaphysical result in question. At every stage of life, Wharton searched in religion and philosophy for answers to pressing metaphysical and ontological questions. This is a remarkable argument, whereby Davidson derives a metaphysical conclusion concerning the physical nature of mental states from premisses which concern their causal role. However, Condillac had no right to simply-side step the metaphysical question of the nature of body. It begins to appear that the metaphysical question of determinism is quite irrelevant to the rationality of our ascription of responsibility. 1.1 Based on abstract (typically, excessively abstract) reasoning. 抽象推理的；高度抽象的 an empiricist rather than a metaphysical view of law 关于法律的经验主义的而非形而上学的观点。 Example sentencesExamples They'll agree to explain the properties we're talking about in scientific terms, and still insist that their metaphysical questions remain. And even if it could somehow be shown that the evil of such events is ‘unreal’ in some abstract metaphysical sense, would that take away the reality of our feeling that it was evil? Her first collection of poems interrogates the nature of physical and the metaphysical knowledge. And then we are faced with the difficult metaphysical question of whether such a universe is really possible. As an woman whose very life is jeopardized by the laws of the land, she responds to a different set of constraints, more material than metaphysical. Mediation between Christianity and Greek philosophy must substitute a metaphysical Plato for an aporetic inquiring Socrates. Given this view of the progressive metaphysical appropriation of ontology as a wrong turn, Heidegger has no choice but go back to the start and take another fork in the road. His enduring little classic, The Problems of Philosophy, sketches the metaphysical and epistemological views he then held. I think that the two types of cosmology, that is religious cosmology based on a metaphysical vision or view of the universe and modern cosmology, should not be confused. This study shows that throughout his life, the Guru did not indulge in metaphysical abstractions or recondite analysis of various religious thoughts. It is to this problem that Kant addressed himself, producing the most metaphysical and abstract basis that has ever been given for the common intuitions of morality. What is this metaphysical view about free will that I wish to attack? It could be argued that the inverted spectrum hypothesis is incoherent for deep metaphysical and empirical reasons. Some attacked his announcement, for example Smith who used a metaphysical argument based on the simplicity of the inverse square law. If so, the whole identity issue is undecidable, since one is demanding metaphysical answers to questions that are in large part semantical. In light of that conviction, what could be taken as a purely metaphysical question becomes much more practical: Where is the church in these terrible events? Curry concedes that some intuition is involved in this meta-mathematics, but he claims that the metaphysical nature of this intuition is irrelevant. This, in turn, is based on the metaphysical assumption that the universe is harmonious and coherent. Our situation is something like the one to which we are assigned by a considerable number of metaphysical philosophers, notably Plato. As noted earlier, we do not ally ourselves with any specific metaphysical view or theoretical system, and prefer a bottom-up approach. Again, we find no reason to suppose that metaphysical issues can be cleanly detached from epistemological concerns. Synonyms abstract, theoretical, conceptual, notional, philosophical, speculative, intellectual, academic 1.2 Transcending physical matter or the laws of nature. 超自然的；超物质的 Good and Evil are inextricably linked in a metaphysical battle across space and time 善与恶在超时空的形而上学的斗争中密不可分。 Example sentencesExamples The explanation for this is that physicians are ‘healers’ much in demand in dramas about physical, moral, metaphysical evil. I think most New Zealanders would agree that it is appropriate to consider spiritual and metaphysical matters as part of a consent process. With the dual sensations of both physical and metaphysical pleasure, it was extremely difficult not to moan his ecstasy aloud. Here, in language, & still more in logic, we are point blank at issue - There is a moral or metaphysical part of nature as well as a physical. The essay is a reflection by Nancy on the physical and metaphysical fallout of the heart transplant he had received ten years previously. Somehow this bunny seemed more physical and less metaphysical. Understanding the metaphysical through the physical or searching for the Reality behind the Appearance, constitutes the basic concept of the religious quest of the Bouls. And an immersion in his oeuvre is an effective cure for many chronic ailments of a metaphysical nature that one might suffer. Even as intellectuals dismiss the nation-space as a metaphysical concept, a transcendent notion, countless people across the world die and kill in the name of a nation. It is only then that the union of the physical and the metaphysical becomes complete, and the body does what the mind tells it to do. Now it is the confused management of metaphysical and spiritual matters. For Hopkins is not so much invoking the metaphysical potential of nature, and its capacity to typify states of mind, as he is making a conservationist plea. In the hands of Velázquez, the existence of a jester could have the same physical - and metaphysical - scale as that of an aristocrat. David is not a character of merit or interest, no matter what metaphysical hoops he is forced through. By the end of his journey - both physical and metaphysical - our tycoon will become the title character. But either way, ID is a metaphysical explanation by its nature, not merely by its implications. But the fact is, when I was a kid in Los Angeles, I was surrounded by numerous studies of a metaphysical nature; it was just part of life there. Systems of thought that are fundamentally metaphysical in nature are not testable and can therefore never be proven incorrect. These belief assumptions, of course, do raise truth claims of a metaphysical nature, but the way goes from within and out, and not the other way around. There is no dematerialization, no aura: the glow rides the surface, more physical than metaphysical. Synonyms transcendental, spiritual, supernatural, paranormal 2Of or characteristic of the metaphysical poets. 玄学派诗人的；玄学派诗人特有的 Example sentencesExamples On one level there is the English metaphysical tradition perhaps best exemplified by John Donne. John Donne, metaphysical poetry, ovarian cancer and chemotherapy might not normally suggest an entertaining night at the theatre. nounˌmɛdəˈfɪzək(ə)lˌmedəˈfizək(ə)l the Metaphysicals The metaphysical poets. 玄学派诗人 Example sentencesExamples Or Eliot, who wrote on the Metaphysicals, Marvell, Dryden, Blake, Wordsworth, Baudelaire and, of course, Dante, as well as many other writers. Duncan's poetry of the forties and fifties is massively influenced by the Metaphysicals. The Metaphysicals and the Elizabethans are clearly still read with devotion. Compared to men, women were Metaphysicals, Donnes and Marvells of brain and heart. And in the beginning of reading poetry, for me it was in the thirties, and I - and everybody was reading Metaphysicals, Donne and so forth.
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