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nounthe philosophical study of being and knowingtype of:
Definition that contains metaphysics
- metaphysical pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics
- aristotelianism (philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science
- peripateticism (philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science
- comtism Auguste Comte's positivistic philosophy that metaphysics and theology should be replaced by a hierarchy of sciences from mathematics at the base to sociology at the top
- hypostasis (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality