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- Please explain to a beginner: what is metaphysics?
Metaphysics is the branch of thinking about what may exist, but we're not sure Many phenomena had first an explanation on the metaphysics realm (also called mythology by some, though mythology is more about the three realms at the same time); only later science described those phenomena in terms of known causes and quantities
- What is the difference between metaphysics and ontology?
Metaphysics is a very broad field, and metaphysicians attempt to answer questions about how the world is Ontology is a related sub-field, partially within metaphysics, that answers questions of what things exist in the world An ontology posits which entities exist in the world
- metaphysics - Distinction between essence,substance, being . . .
Existence: I've never really seen this defined, and contemporary analytic metaphysics tends to make no distinction between existing and being The Meinongians famously distinguished between different kinds of being, where some things with being might not exist
- What are some real-life applications of metaphysics?
How has metaphysics impacted the real-world, if at all? The difference between these two questions becomes clear if we consider another example An enumeration of the 'real-world applications' of music might include prenatal music therapy, whereas the impact of music on the world is so much broader than any single 'application' that it would
- metaphysics - What is the purpose of answers to metaphysical questions . . .
Metaphysics has no utility in this sense and I challenge anyone on this site to provide an obvious counter example that doesn’t trot out some clap trap about ‘understanding’ Pace Logical Positivism, I think the significance of what you might call “the social utility of representation” is however, hopelessly over looked
- metaphysics - What is the difference between the spiritual and the . . .
Metaphysics deals with one naturalistic transcendental being — the human subject — and its relationship to objects, other human subjects, and abstract concepts Spirituality presumes one, or several, or a multitude, of other transcendental beings — spirits, which might be gods, or demons, or ghosts, or some essence that is embodied in
- metaphysics - What is the identity of the I (s) in I think . . .
I have couple of questions regarding this Which of these two quot;I quot;s is the entity expressing the phrase? Are the two quot;I quot;s same?
- metaphysics - What does Thomas Aquinas think about the nature of . . .
Here is what I was able to find on page 69 of Rahner's book at the Internet Archive: "Knowing does not come about “through a contact of the intellect with the intelligible thing,” but being and knowing are the same: “the intellect and the known and the knowing are the same ”
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