Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that deals with abstract concepts such as existence, reality, and the nature of being. It’s a complex subject that can be challenging to grasp, but with the right ...

The idea that an a priori metaphysics must first provide a conceptual framework for science to work at all, to be able to reveal truths about reality, is, as the philosopher Don Ross has aptly put it, ...

“ALL men by nature desire to know.” So begins the first book of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, written about two and a half thousand years ago and still one of the most influential works of Western ...

In recent years philosophers have been interested in the methodology of metaphysics. Most of these developments are related to formal work in logic or physics, often against the backdrop of the Carnap ...

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Rene Descartes, the father of cartesian philosophy, puts forward the relationship between sciences and especially the relation of metaphysics with other sciences through a metaphor known as the “Tree ...

Retired, Berg en Dal, The Netherlands. “People who have always had an aversion against metaphysics felt an almost miraculous comfort by having their aversion justified by ‘logic’.” (Frank, 1963: p 159 ...