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- Please explain to a beginner: what is metaphysics?
Metaphysics is the branch of thinking about what may exist, but we're not sure Many phenomena had first an explanation on the metaphysics realm (also called mythology by some, though mythology is more about the three realms at the same time); only later science described those phenomena in terms of known causes and quantities
- What is the difference between metaphysics and ontology?
Metaphysics is a very broad field, and metaphysicians attempt to answer questions about how the world is Ontology is a related sub-field, partially within metaphysics, that answers questions of what things exist in the world An ontology posits which entities exist in the world
- metaphysics - Distinction between essence,substance, being . . .
Existence: I've never really seen this defined, and contemporary analytic metaphysics tends to make no distinction between existing and being The Meinongians famously distinguished between different kinds of being, where some things with being might not exist
- What are some real-life applications of metaphysics?
How has metaphysics impacted the real-world, if at all? The difference between these two questions becomes clear if we consider another example An enumeration of the 'real-world applications' of music might include prenatal music therapy, whereas the impact of music on the world is so much broader than any single 'application' that it would
- metaphysics - Metaphysicist or Metaphysician? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Whereas meta-mathematics is the theoretization of mathematics, metaphysics is not the theoretization of physics People who are meta-theorizing about physics should probably be called metaphysicists Instead metaphysics is a 'discpline' of inquiry originating in Aristotle's Metaphysics and bears its name mainly due to that circumstance and
- metaphysics - What is the purpose of answers to metaphysical questions . . .
Metaphysics has no utility in this sense and I challenge anyone on this site to provide an obvious counter example that doesn’t trot out some clap trap about ‘understanding’ Pace Logical Positivism, I think the significance of what you might call “the social utility of representation” is however, hopelessly over looked
- metaphysics - Can free will exist in principle if one can return to a . . .
With the emphasis on "feel", you've hit the reason I don't worry about this question: If I can't tell the difference, I honestly don't care whether I have free will or just think I have free will, just as I don't care about the simulation hypothesis "There are metaphysics that matter, and metaphysics that don't, and this is one of them ”
- metaphysics - Can we meaningfully talk about possibility in a world . . .
Philosophers often distinguish between different types of modality—logical, metaphysical, physical, epistemic, etc Logical possibility is usually treated as the broadest category: if something is
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