Metaphysics Study - Education (definition)

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"Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity." - Maimonides


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This article is about the branch of philosophy dealing with theories of existence and knowledge. For the work of Aristotle, see Metaphysics (Aristotle). For the definition relating to the supernatural, see Metaphysics (supernatural).

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Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world,^[1] although the term is not easily defined.^[2] Traditionally, metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:

1. "What is there?"
2. "What is it like?"^[3]

A person who studies metaphysics is called a metaphysicist^[4] or a metaphysician.^[5] The metaphysician attempts to clarify the fundamental notions by which people understand the world, e.g., existence, objects and their properties, space and time, cause and effect, and possibility. A central branch of metaphysics is ontology, the investigation into the basic categories of being and how they relate to each other.

Prior to the modern history of science, scientific questions were addressed as a part of metaphysics known as natural philosophy. The term science itself meant "knowledge" of, originating from epistemology. The scientific method, however, transformed natural philosophy into an empirical activity deriving fromexperiment unlike the rest of philosophy. By the end of the 18th century, it had begun to be called "science" to distinguish it from philosophy. Thereafter, metaphysics denoted philosophical enquiry of a non-empirical character into the nature of existence.^[6]

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Contents   [hide]  1 Etymology 2 Origins and nature of metaphysics 2.1 Aristotle's branching 3 Central questions 3.1 Being, existence and reality 3.2 Empirical and conceptual objects 3.2.1 Objects and their properties 3.2.2 Abstract objects and mathematics 3.3 Cosmology and cosmogony 3.4 Determinism and free will 3.4.1 Quantum physics 3.5 Identity and change 3.6 Mind and matter 3.7 Necessity and possibility 3.8 Religion and spirituality 3.9 Space and time 4 Styles and methods of metaphysics 5 History and schools of metaphysics 5.1 Pre-Socratic metaphysics in Greece 5.2 Socrates and Plato 5.3 Aristotle 5.4 Scholasticism and the Middle Ages 5.5 Continental rationalism 5.6 British empiricism 5.7 Kant 5.8 Early analytical philosophy and positivism 5.9 Continental philosophy 5.10 Later analytical philosophy 6 The value and future of metaphysics 7 See also 8 Further reading 9 Notes and references 10 Bibliography 11 External links

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