How to Use metaphysic in a Sentence
metaphysic
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The trouble with that is that there are parts of the metaphysics of QBism that even de Finetti wouldn’t accept!
—Quanta Magazine, 4 June 2015
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The scope of his work involves words and movement and certainly a kind of metaphysics.
—Ben Ratliff, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2016
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By Lowery’s loopy metaphysics, this sends the ghost back to the time of European settlement of the American frontier.
—Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 5 July 2017
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Though physics, philosophy and metaphysics have all grappled with the concept of time, we are still confounded by it.
—Priyamvada Natarajan, WSJ, 1 June 2018
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That same technology has nudged receipts into the realm of metaphysics.
—Wesley Morris, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
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Or it has been cast as a tragedy, in which the sudden death of his beloved wife, Anna, triggered in him a lifelong hatred of metaphysics and the wish to create his own ersatz-religion.
—Christoph Irmscher, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
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Her way with metaphor implies a metaphysics, in her case a metaphysics informed by her Calvinism: History is a fabric.
—Donovan Hohn, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2018
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His trademark soul-searching about physics and metaphysics, politics and academia, sin and knowledge, spirit and matter, rings out in the classic, complex way.
—Katie Ward Beim-Esche, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2017
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Strike out on your own in this 7 year cycle, explore technology, metaphysics, a dream job, and consider that your work can be divinely inspired.
—Rebecca Gordon, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 May 2018
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Well, if politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream from metaphysics.
—Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, National Review, 2 Nov. 2017
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The congregation uses prayers that omit any mention of God, and its teachings tend to emphasize science and human reason above spirit or metaphysics.
—Mark Oppenheimer, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2017
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Either way, as the Western traditions moved from myths to metaphysics, the question of God's culpability in evil became more complicated.
—Daniel Burke, CNN, 8 Oct. 2017
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Both authors sought to explore the modern journey toward a metaphysics of personal value and ended up creating a cult-like status driving the Beat Generation through the Age of Aquarius.
—Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 Apr. 2017
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Aristotle, a Greek philosopher and scientist, made lasting contributions in the fields of ethics, metaphysics and biology.
—Pat Disabato, Daily Southtown, 21 Aug. 2017
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The Theologia, dating from the time when Wycliffe was active, is an early example of a German-language metaphysics written to be accessible to those who were not educated to read Latin, the language of the church and the universities.
—Marilynne Robinson, New Republic, 12 Dec. 2017
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And without referencing metaphysics, consciousness, or anything even remotely MAGA—in fact, the message was very sweet.
—Vogue, 4 Dec. 2018
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The book is a romance, a thriller and a meditation on geopolitical conundrums, ideology, science and metaphysics.
—Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
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Presence has a long history in religion and philosophy, from Buddhist practices to the metaphysics of the 20th-century philosopher Martin Heidegger.
—Marcel O’Gorman, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2018
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Occasionally metaphysics invades politics, to the surprise even of metaphysicians like me.
—Crispin Sartwell, WSJ, 5 May 2017
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Ibn Khaldun only criticized Aristotle’s metaphysics, not the entirety of his enormous corpus.
—WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018
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And doing something spiritual, rather than believing in its metaphysics, is arguably the best entry point for most modern, educated Americans with respect to religious faith.
—Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Sep. 2017
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This argument marks a remarkable slide from history into organicist metaphysics.
—Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
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In the mid-1980s, a few years after Iran became the world’s first modern revolutionary theocracy, two charismatic intellectuals and their followers conducted a long-running feud over metaphysics in the country’s newspapers and lecture halls.
—Steve Negus, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2016
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His bookshelves are organized into categories: metaphysics, theology, biology, history, law.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2017
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