How to Use metaphysic in a Sentence

metaphysic

noun

• 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
• The scope of his work involves words and movement and certainly a kind of metaphysics.
  — Ben Ratliff, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2016
• 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
• 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
• That same technology has nudged receipts into the realm of metaphysics.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Well, if politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream from metaphysics.
  — Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, National Review, 2 Nov. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Aristotle, a Greek philosopher and scientist, made lasting contributions in the fields of ethics, metaphysics and biology.
  — Pat Disabato, Daily Southtown, 21 Aug. 2017
• 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
• And without referencing metaphysics, consciousness, or anything even remotely MAGA—in fact, the message was very sweet.
  — Vogue, 4 Dec. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Occasionally metaphysics invades politics, to the surprise even of metaphysicians like me.
  — Crispin Sartwell, WSJ, 5 May 2017
• Ibn Khaldun only criticized Aristotle’s metaphysics, not the entirety of his enormous corpus.
  — WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018
• 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
• This argument marks a remarkable slide from history into organicist metaphysics.
  — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• 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
• His bookshelves are organized into categories: metaphysics, theology, biology, history, law.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2017

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