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Definition: SPECIAL METAPHYSICS |
SPECIAL METAPHYSICS1. Is the science of one kind of being; as, the metaphysics of chemistry, of morals, or of politics. According to Kant, a systematic exposition of those notions and truths, the knowledge of which is altogether independent of experience, would constitute the science of metaphysics. Commonly, in the schools, called metaphysics, as being part of the philosophy of Aristotle, which hath that for title; but it is in another sense: for there it signifieth as much as ``books written or placed after his natural philosophy.'' But the schools take them for ``books of supernatural philosophy;'' for the word metaphysic will bear both these senses. --Hobbes. Now the science conversant about all such inferences of unknown being from its known manifestations, is called ontology, or metaphysics proper. --Sir W. Hamilton. Metaphysics are [is] the science which determines what can and what can not be known of being, and the laws of being, a priori. --Coleridge. 2. Hence: The scientific knowledge of mental phenomena; mental philosophy; psychology. Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science or complement of sciences exclusively occupied with mind. --Sir W. Hamilton. Whether, after all, A larger metaphysics might not help Our physics. --Mrs. Browning. |
Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-e-h-i-i-l-m-p-p-s-s-s-t-y" | |
-4 letters: mesaticephalic. | |
-5 letters: chiasmatypies, mesaticephaly, metapsychical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 50 45 43 49 41 4C 4D 45 54 41 50 48 59 53 49 43 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010000 01000101 01000011 01001001 01000001 01001100 00100000 01001101 01000101 01010100 01000001 01010000 01001000 01011001 01010011 01001001 01000011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S P E C I A L   M E T A P H Y S I C S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0050 0045 0043 0049 0041 004C 004D 0045 0054 0041 0050 0048 0059 0053 0049 0043 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5350393743354624739543550425953433753 |
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