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... metaphysics 1 Origin of the term 1 Characterizations of metaphysics 1 Metaphysics and other branches of philosophy 4 Metaphysics and analysis 5 Problems in metaphysics 6 The existence of Forms , categories , and particulars 6 The ...
... metaphysics 1 Origin of the term 1 Characterizations of metaphysics 1 Metaphysics and other branches of philosophy 4 Metaphysics and analysis 5 Problems in metaphysics 6 The existence of Forms , categories , and particulars 6 The ...
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... metaphysics is " the study of first principles , " or ultimate , irrefutable truths . Metaphysics could be said to provide a theory of first principles if it furnished men with a set of concepts in the light of which they could arrive ...
... metaphysics is " the study of first principles , " or ultimate , irrefutable truths . Metaphysics could be said to provide a theory of first principles if it furnished men with a set of concepts in the light of which they could arrive ...
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... metaphysics might and sometimes did challenge the propriety of this postulate . Similarly , ethics , like law , could get nowhere without the assumption that the individual agent is a self- contained unit answerable in general terms for ...
... metaphysics might and sometimes did challenge the propriety of this postulate . Similarly , ethics , like law , could get nowhere without the assumption that the individual agent is a self- contained unit answerable in general terms for ...
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