Metaphysics
[metə'fɪzɪks] or [,mɛtə'fɪzɪks]
解释:
(n.) The science of real as distinguished from phenomenal being; ontology; also, the science of being, with reference to its abstract and universal conditions, as distinguished from the science of determined or concrete being; the science of the conceptions and relations which are necessarily implied as true of every kind of being; phylosophy in general; first principles, or the science of first principles.
(n.) Hence: The scientific knowledge of mental phenomena; mental philosophy; psychology.
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同义词及近义词：
n. Psychology, pneumatology, mental philosophy, philosophy of the mind, mental science.
校对:朗达
解释:
n.sing. the science which investigates the first principles of nature and thought: ontology or the science of being.—adj. Metaphys′ical pertaining to metaphysics; abstract.—adv. Metaphys′ically.—n. Metaphysic′ian one versed in metaphysics.
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例句:
- His chief treatise, entitled the Republic, is at once a treatise on morals, on social organization, and on the metaphysics and science of nature. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- His office was filled with stacks of books all relating to metaphysics and kindred matters. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- He turned it over in his mind, with thought deep and slow, as some German pondering metaphysics. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- This was a case of metaphysics, at least as difficult for Joe to deal with as for me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Gautama became versed in all the metaphysics of his age. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- My mother is like old George the Third, said the Vicar, she objects to metaphysics. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I pored over the poetry of old times; I studied the metaphysics of Plato and Berkeley. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- How long I might have remained lost in the mist of my own metaphysics, if I had been left to extricate myself, it is impossible for me to say. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- They appeared in the form of a copious review of a work on Chinese metaphysics, Sir,' said Pott. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Having read a number of articles on the tariff and ploughed through the metaphysics of the currency question, what do they do? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- But Joe took the case altogether out of the region of metaphysics, and by that means vanquished it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- The present subject of metaphysics will supply us abundantly. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
整理:罗德尼