English dictionary
metaphysics
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Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
noun
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the philosophical study of being and knowing
Source: WordNet 3.0
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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; philosophy in general; first principles, or the science of first principles.
Source: webster1913