How to Use metaphysics in a Sentence

metaphysics

noun

• At the heart of Kant’s metaphysics stands the difference between the way the world is and the way the world ought to be.
  — Susan Neiman, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
• Here was a strange matter of metaphysics—Schrödinger’s phone.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 28 May 2022
• Above all, the two men differed in their opinion of the value of metaphysics.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
• Grown-ups, both black and white, find something fishy in this metaphysics.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 16 May 2021
• Lecturers would speak on metaphysics — the hot topic of the time.
  — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 20 Dec. 2021
• His first role at the University of Naples was to lecture on logic and metaphysics.
  — Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2023
• Much of the debate over the issue now seems to occur in the abstract, concerned with the sanctity of life and the metaphysics of conception.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 7 June 2022
• Even Neil deGrasse Tyson has, more recently, backed away from his Muskian metaphysics.
  — Jason Kehe, Wired, 9 Mar. 2022
• According to the metaphysics of Taylor Swift, the past is entirely changeable.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• In an age of triumphant physics, did philosophy still need to bother with metaphysics?
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
• 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
• But even the most rarefied metaphysics at TSMC rest on a tangible substrate: silicon.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
• Jaan's talk was about the metaphysics of the singularity, and it was presented in a congenial cartoon form.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2012
• Van Doesburg, clinging to a metaphysics of art that his friend was casting off, seemed not to have grasped Mondrian’s increasing rigor.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
• The show, presented by Dutch Kills Theater Company, tries to mix mundane office tasks and metaphysics.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020
• Their mistake doesn’t arise from bad social psychology but from bad metaphysics.
  — Chilton Williamson Jr., WSJ, 25 Dec. 2020
• Every great urban filmmaker has a personal metaphysics of the city, a sense that the synergies and mysteries of urban life can find their ideal form in images.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2021
• But Nolan misses the deeper metaphysics undergirding the drama.
  — WIRED, 24 July 2023
• The otherworlds that Véra claimed were central to his metaphysics don’t necessarily exist in a temporal hereafter, but rather in a spatial here and now.
  — Ryan Ruby, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
• Visionaire was launched in 1991, and the abstract equation of these three objects—magazine, garment, pattern—speaks to the growing acceptance of fashion as a realm with its own metaphysics.
  — Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2022
• Gloria, who discovered the sinister metaphysics of the imaginary-friend world back then, has written a historical tome about the subject.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Mar. 2024
• The Mystic Jammers use sonic science and music metaphysics to drive audiences into a state of ecstasy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2021
• The Gnomons devote themselves equally to metaphysics and to the pointless disputes and exacerbations of day-to-day operations.
  — Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 7 Apr. 2023
• Ninth House The ninth house is the philosophical house, ruling over religion, metaphysics, and higher education.
  — Narayana Montúfar, Women's Health, 14 Aug. 2023
• Western thinkers and their societies did not return to classical metaphysics to understand their predicament.
  — Richard M. Reinsch Ii, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• This could give way to some good old-fashioned lusty desires, but the eighth house also rules deeper realms: metaphysics, spirituality and not mere physical bonding, but soul-merging!
  — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 13 Nov. 2022
• All the offerings — mostly readings or short performances — respond to the life and work of the late playwright Kathleen Collins, including her lectures on her own narrative metaphysics and one-act plays, which are wry and mystical.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 21 May 2021
• Essentially, Churchman paints a wide variety of disparate subjects as a means to portray his interest in metaphysics.
  — Matthew Bourbon, Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2021
• But the tendency to think this way is mostly our inheritance of an inadequate and un-ecological folk-metaphysics.
  — Justin E. H. Smith, Wired, 3 Mar. 2022
• It's revved up anticipation among motorcycle riders, philosophy buffs, Smithsonian staff, and even those who started reading the book but skidded off the road when the metaphysics got too slippery.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024