2015年8月21日 · @jowehler I don't think there is any criterion, beyond the trivial semantic one: metaphysical questions are the questions studied by metaphysicians. Pick up an anthology or a journal and look at how papers are categorized--the questions above are the kind of thing you'll see under the heading "metaphysics".

2020年5月30日 · The metaphysical evidence or not preceptive to five gross senses--eyes, ears, nose, etc.--but it is clear to your intellect. You can't deny the consciousness of your thoughts. Don't think metaphysical level is bogus. Gedankenexperiment or thought experiment is a very good example of a valid and highly valued type of metaphysical activity. That ...

So, a metaphysical conclusion we can draw from this is: "The world is such that matter is governed by physical laws." This is a metaphysical conclusion because it describes a way that reality is - laws are a property of reality (and further, reality is …

2016年9月1日 · The laws of identity, non-contradiction, and excluded middle are traditionally considered to be logical laws, not metaphysical, neither are physical laws metaphysical, and cogito ergo sum is not even a law (Leibniz called it a "fact of reason"). Metaphysical truths are usually truths that predicate the "true being", if one believes in such a thing.

2023年3月24日 · But this suggests that there is a metaphysical reality - a summum bonum or true good - that provides a foundation for ethics, which would be at odds with naturalism's overall rejection of supernatural or transcendent realities. In this quote, metaphysics and supernaturalism are somehow equated.

2014年5月17日 · Therefore, we know that (p ∨ ¬p) is metaphysically necessary. Metaphysical possibility is defined in an analogous manner: Definition 5. (Metaphysical possibility m). Formula φ of propositional modal language is metaphysically possible (symbolically: m φ) iff it is true in Carnapian models at some valuation. Example.

2015年8月27日 · - In addition you raise the interesting question whether "reality of a concept" is a limit term, meaning the limit of all implementations of the concept in successfull theories - always under the assumption that the limit exists. Do you consider the latter a metaphysical question, does metaphysics contribute to an answer? –

2023年7月10日 · Linguistic physicalism is the thesis that everything physical can be expressed or captured in the languages of the basic sciences…Linguistic physicalism is stronger than metaphysical physicalism and less plausible. Linguistic physicalism has a well defined meaning as far as I see. But what does metaphysical physicalism even mean?

2024年12月5日 · Physical causal closure is a metaphysical theory about the nature of causation in the physical realm with significant ramifications in the study of metaphysics and the mind. In a strongly stated version, physical causal closure says that "all physical states have pure physical causes" — Jaegwon Kim, or that "physical effects have only ...

2015年9月8日 · Good explanation. But isn't it also important to add, crudely, that the assumed "presence" behind the network of inferior "representations" is endlessly displaced and deferred, hence "metaphysical" in the traditionally derogatory sense? Or am I mistakenly treating "presence" too transcendentally, as a kind of noumena? –