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2. Metaphysics - Wikipedia

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   Metaphysics is relevant to many fields of inquiry that often implicitly rely on metaphysical concepts and assumptions. The roots of metaphysics lie in antiquity with speculations about the nature and origin of the universe, like those found in the Upanishads in ancient India , Daoism in ancient China , and pre-Socratic philosophy in ancient ...

3. 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:

4. Outline of metaphysics - Wikipedia

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   Philosophical theology – branch of theology and metaphysics that uses philosophical methods in developing or analyzing theological concepts. Natural theology – branch of theology and metaphysics the object of which is the nature of the gods, or of the one supreme God. In monotheistic religions, this principally involves arguments about the ...

5. History of metaphysics - Wikipedia

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   The analytic view is of metaphysics as studying phenomenal human concepts rather than making claims about the noumenal world, so its style often blurs into philosophy of language and introspective psychology. Compared to system-building, it can seem very dry, stylistically similar to computer programming, mathematics or even accountancy (as a ...

6. Universal mind - Wikipedia

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   The universal mind, or universal consciousness, is a metaphysical concept suggesting an underlying essence of all beings and becoming in the universe. It includes the being and becoming that occurred in the universe prior to the emergence of the concept of mind, a term that more appropriately refers to the organic, human aspect of universal consciousness.

7. 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.

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. Category:Metaphysical theories - Wikipedia

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   Pages in category "Metaphysical theories" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Absolute (philosophy)