And metaphysics, the extension of science in metaphysical ways, is not subject to empirical test.
The problem was that the new, Western astronomy was embedded in a very different metaphysics.
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But Brooks supplies neither drama, high emotion, nor the mindbending metaphysics of aging without time.
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Both materialistic evolution and divine creation are natural philosophies, what the Greeks called metaphysics.
But "Pi's" bargain-basement metaphysics is like organic fruit salad to the collective Hollywood mindset, irrespective of ideology.
There are discussions of metaphysics and time travel and multiverse theory and all sorts of things buried there.
The whole is, after all, greater than the sum of its parts in brainstorming as well as metaphysics.
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From the West he acquired an understanding of Greek metaphysics, with its remarkable formulation of body and soul.
In terms of metaphysics, van Fraasen writes, that would be a philosophical truth.
Its fruits include a great Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures and Philo's brilliant exposition of Jewish metaphysics written in Greek.
Metaphysics is an attempt to extend science by means that some proponents claim are the same as those used in science.
That is, he has moved the discussion of the terrorist release from the realm of reality to the realm of metaphysics.
His poems dealt with metaphysics, immortality, love, memory and beauty.
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