metaphysics

n (philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science

a short, proverbial rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics.

Auguste Comte's positivistic philosophy that metaphysics and theology should be replaced by a hierarchy of sciences from mathematics at the base to sociology at the top

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pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics s