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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome

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2010
Subject:
Classical studies, History
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1,920 words

Although Plato and some Presocratics reflected on metaphysical problems and questions, it was Aristotle who first recognized a distinct science

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World Encyclopedia

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Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Encyclopedias
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53 words

Branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of reality and with the nature of the universe. Metaphysics divides

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D. W. Hamlyn

The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Philosophy
Length:
2,900 words
Metaphysics is the most abstract and in some views ‘high-falutin’ part of philosophy, having to do with the features of ultimate reality, what really exists and what it is that ... More
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Richard L. Gregory

The Oxford Companion to the Mind (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Science and technology, Psychology, Philosophy
Length:
346 words
Metaphysics is generally taken to mean philosophical speculation beyond the current or even seemingly possible limits of science or technology to test, the development of systems intended ... More
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

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Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
987 words

The highest philosophical discipline, also called ‘First Philosophy’ or ‘the divine science’. Medieval metaphysics draws from several sources—the metaphysics of

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The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy

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Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Philosophy
Length:
6,122 words

While it may sometimes seem as if British philosophers have avoided metaphysics more than most, what they have chiefly avoided,

METAPHYSICS

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The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2011
Subject:
Religion
Length:
263 words
the philosophical study of the nature of being. Jewish philosophers have tended to define and defend their faith in the light of current general philosophical positions. In the first ... More
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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

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Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
1,331 words

It is well established that the term “metaphysics” was forged by Andronicus of Rhodes in the first century of the

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions

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Current Version:
2003
Subject:
Religion
Length:
140 words

The study of the most fundamental constituents of reality. The term was given by a later editor to a series

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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2006
the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space. Metaphysics has ... More

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