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  2. Metaphysics - Wikipedia

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    Based on this controversial assumption, they argue that metaphysical statements are meaningless since they make no testable predictions about experience. [119] A slightly weaker position allows metaphysical statements to have meaning while holding that metaphysical disagreements are merely verbal disputes about different ways to describe the world.

  3. Outline of metaphysics - Wikipedia

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    Descartes' metaphysical thought is found in his Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) and Principles of Philosophy (1644). Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677) – one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy. He defined "God" as a singular self-subsistent substance, and both matter and thought as attributes of such.

  4. List of metaphysicians - Wikipedia

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    By period; Ancient. Ancient Egyptian; Ancient Greek; Medieval; Renaissance; Modern; Contemporary. Analytic; Continental; By region; African. Egypt; Ethiopia; South Africa

  5. Glossary of New Thought terms - Wikipedia

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    Douglass, R. C. Metaphysical Bible Dictionary: An Interpretation of the Symbolical Meaning of Scripture Names. Kansas City: Unity School of Christianity. Holmes, Ernest (2010) New Thought Terms and Their Meanings: A Dictionary of the Terms and Commonly Used in Metaphysical and Psychological Study. Martino Publishing. Fillmore, Charles (1997).

  6. Category:Concepts in metaphysics - Wikipedia

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    Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy exploring the fundamental questions, including the nature of concepts like being, existence, and reality.Traditional metaphysics seeks to answer, in a "suitably abstract and fully general manner", the questions:

  7. Metaphysical solipsism - Wikipedia

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    In metaphysics, Metaphysical solipsism is the variety of idealism which asserts that nothing exists externally to this one mind, and since this mind is the whole of reality then the "external world" was never anything more than an idea.

  8. Monad (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    According to Hippolytus, the worldview was inspired by the Pythagoreans, who called the first thing that came into existence the "monad", which begat (bore) the dyad (from the Greek word for two), which begat the numbers, which begat the point, begetting lines or finiteness, etc. [3] It meant divinity, the first being, or the totality of all beings, referring in cosmogony (creation theories ...

  9. Universal (metaphysics) - Wikipedia

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    In metaphysics, a universal is what particular things have in common, namely characteristics or qualities. In other words, universals are repeatable or recurrent entities that can be instantiated or exemplified by many particular things. [1]