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Hence: The scientific knowledge of mental phenomena; mental philosophy; psychology. Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science or complement of sciences exclusively occupied with mind. Sir W. Hamilton. Whether, after all, A larger metaphysics might not help Our physics. Mrs. Browning.…

of the world with those of the gospel. C. J. Smith. The alliance . . . between logic and metaphysics. Mansel.

An elementary principle or maximum; a short, proverbial rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics. The legal brocard, "Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus," is a rule not more applicable to other witness than to consciousness. Sir W. Hamilton.

new accents, or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics. Burke.

Pertaining to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, or to his poetry or metaphysics.

The science of ideas or of the nature and laws of being -- higher metaphysics. By Kant, it was employed to signify the logic of appearances or illusions, whether these arise from accident or error, or from those necessary limitations which, according to this philosopher, originate in the constitution of the human intel…

one who holds the doctrine of evolution, either in biology or in metaphysics. Darwin.

ived by the understanding only, not by the senses. Intellective abstractions of logic and metaphysics. Milton.

See Metaphysics.

Of or pertaining to metaphysics.

One who is versed in metaphysics.

That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings, as such, or the principles and causes of being.

One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning. At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the schools. Macaulay.

Suttapitaka [Pali] , or Basket of Discourses; and Abhidhammapitaka [Pali] , or Basket of Metaphysics.