metaphysics
- Noun. (philosophy, uncountable) The branch of philosophy which studies fundamental principles intended to describe or explain all that is, and which are not themselves explained by anything more fundamental; the study of first principles; the study of being insofar as it is being (''ens in quantum ens'').
- Noun. (philosophy, countable) The view or theory of a particular philosopher or school of thinkers concerning the first principles which describe or explain all that is.
- Noun. (uncountable, by extension from the philosophical sense) Any fundamental principles or rules.
- Noun. (uncountable) The study of a supersensual realm or of phenomena which transcend the physical world.
- Noun. (uncountable) Displeasingly abstruse, complex material on any subject.
- Noun. (countable) Plural of countable senses of metaphysic.
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