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  2. Metaphysics - Wikipedia

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    The position that metaphysical disputes have no meaning or no significant point is called metaphysical or ontological deflationism. [121] This view is opposed by so-called serious metaphysicians, who contend that metaphysical disputes are about substantial features of the underlying structure of reality. [122]

  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. Predication (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    The Aristotelian conceptualization of predication, for instance, focused on the metaphysical configurations that underlie sentences. [12] There are scholars who note that Aristotle's thought on the subject can be distinguished in two levels: ontological (where predicates pertain to things); and, logical (where predicates are something that is ...

  5. Grounding (metaphysics) - Wikipedia

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    Grounding is a topic in metaphysics.Consider an ordinary physical object, such as a table, and the atoms it is made of. Without the atoms, the table would not exist; thus, the table's existence depends on the existence of the atoms.

  6. Metaphysical naturalism - Wikipedia

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    Metaphysical naturalism is the philosophical basis of science as described by Kate and Vitaly (2000). "There are certain philosophical assumptions made at the base of the scientific method – namely, 1) that reality is objective and consistent, 2) that humans have the capacity to perceive reality accurately, and that 3) rational explanations exist for elements of the real world.

  7. Metasemantics - Wikipedia

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    In the philosophy of language and metaphysics, metasemantics is the study of the foundations of natural language semantics (the philosophical study of meaning). [1] [2] [3] Metasemantics searches for "the proper understanding of compositionality, the object of truth-conditional analysis, metaphysics of reference, as well as, and most importantly, the scope of semantic theory itself" [4] and ...

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  9. Metaphysics (Aristotle) - Wikipedia

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    Many of Aristotle's works are extremely compressed, and many scholars believe that in their current form, they are likely lecture notes. [2] Subsequent to the arrangement of Aristotle's works by Andronicus of Rhodes in the first century BC, a number of his treatises were referred to as the writings "after ("meta") the Physics" [b], the origin of the current title for the collection Metaphysics.