metaphysic

[ met-uh-fiz-ik ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

metaphysic

/ ˌmɛtəˈfɪzɪk /

the system of first principles and assumptions underlying an enquiry or philosophical theory
an obsolete word for metaphysician

1350–1400; Middle English metaphisik < Medieval Latin metaphysica (neuter plural); metaphysics

The philosophy of Germany at the present day is making several attempts at a metaphysic of the universe.

But these three systems have not, except in a secondary way, attempted a metaphysic of human life.

And it is in this work that Eucken's Metaphysic of Life becomes a religious metaphysic.

The new religious metaphysic will then mean a real philosophy of values.

This, that physic inquires concerning the material and efficient causes, but metaphysic handles the formal and final causes.

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