metaphysician
noun
meta·phy·si·cian
ˌme-tə-fə-ˈzi-shən 
: a student of or specialist in metaphysics
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History is the concrete body of a development, with its moments of intensity, its lapses, its extended periods of feverish agitation, its fainting spells; and only a metaphysician would seek its soul in the distant ideality of the origin.
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Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
Broadsheets of the era carried listings for spirit boards, erotic elixirs and an endless parade of enterprising metaphysicians.
—Sam Kestenbaum, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
Taylor is always happy to discuss his favorite philosopher, the 18th-century German metaphysician Immanuel Kant, and his study of moral objectives.
—Joan Niesen, SI.com, 6 Sep. 2019
My mother was a terrific metaphysician, passionate about the world around her and the lives of others.
—Susan Fekete, Longreads, 7 Mar. 2018
Bannon's reading eventually led him to the work of René Guénon, an early-20th- century French occultist and metaphysician who was raised a Roman Catholic, practiced Freemasonry, and later became a Sufi Muslim who observed the Sharia.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 19 July 2017
Bannon’s reading eventually led him to the work of René Guénon, an early-20th-century French occultist and metaphysician who was raised a Roman Catholic, practiced Freemasonry, and later became a Sufi Muslim who observed the Sharia.
—Joshua Green, The Hive, 17 July 2017
Occasionally metaphysics invades politics, to the surprise even of metaphysicians like me.
—Crispin Sartwell, WSJ, 5 May 2017
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Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
Broadsheets of the era carried listings for spirit boards, erotic elixirs and an endless parade of enterprising metaphysicians.
—Sam Kestenbaum, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
Taylor is always happy to discuss his favorite philosopher, the 18th-century German metaphysician Immanuel Kant, and his study of moral objectives.
—Joan Niesen, SI.com, 6 Sep. 2019
My mother was a terrific metaphysician, passionate about the world around her and the lives of others.
—Susan Fekete, Longreads, 7 Mar. 2018
Bannon's reading eventually led him to the work of René Guénon, an early-20th- century French occultist and metaphysician who was raised a Roman Catholic, practiced Freemasonry, and later became a Sufi Muslim who observed the Sharia.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 19 July 2017
Bannon’s reading eventually led him to the work of René Guénon, an early-20th-century French occultist and metaphysician who was raised a Roman Catholic, practiced Freemasonry, and later became a Sufi Muslim who observed the Sharia.
—Joshua Green, The Hive, 17 July 2017
Occasionally metaphysics invades politics, to the surprise even of metaphysicians like me.
—Crispin Sartwell, WSJ, 5 May 2017
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“Metaphysician.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metaphysician. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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