Aug 21, 2015 · 7 Metaphysics is the title of a collection of lectures by Aristotle. The name is not by Aristotle but due to a later librarian who edited all scriptures of Aristotle. The librarian arranged the …

Metaphysics is a very broad field, and metaphysicians attempt to answer questions about how the world is. Ontology is a related sub-field, partially within metaphysics, that answers questions of what things …

Feb 21, 2024 · 4 Metaphysics is supposed to answer the question "What is the nature of reality?" Reality is by definition all that there is, so nature is part of it presuming it exists, if so then there cannot be a …

Feb 16, 2025 · The view metaphysics=first philosophy originated from Aristotle and was still supported by Descartes. Modern science, since Galileo and Newton, rejected the idea that "science is subject …

Aug 18, 2022 · In the Aristotle-Aquinas tradition prime matter is the thing that underlies all material things. It is described as completely indeterminate-pure potentiality. Aristotle held that it was not …

Aug 22, 2022 · See Metaphysics: the science of being (according to Aristotle and his tradition) vs the inquiry about the fundamental problems of reality: Space and Time, Causation, Freedom and …

Dec 23, 2025 · Does this framework correctly diagnose first-cause explanations as category mistakes? Are there established views in analytic or Aristotelian metaphysics that either anticipate or decisively …

Existence: I've never really seen this defined, and contemporary analytic metaphysics tends to make no distinction between existing and being. The Meinongians famously distinguished between different …

Mar 11, 2016 · Metaphysics seems to be a field that is almost purely abstract. However, I am also interested in knowing how metaphysics has impacted the real world, if at all.

Mar 14, 2025 · OP: " has any philosopher defined what an entity is? Is it even possible to do so, given how primitive the concept is? " Kant makes a nice distinction in the definition of an entity – a thing – …