And metaphysics, the extension of science in metaphysical ways, is not subject to empirical test.

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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.

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But "Pi's" bargain-basement metaphysics is like organic fruit salad to the collective Hollywood mindset, irrespective of ideology.

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There are discussions of metaphysics and time travel and multiverse theory and all sorts of things buried there.

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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.

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In terms of metaphysics, van Fraasen writes, that would be a philosophical truth.

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Its fruits include a great Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures and Philo's brilliant exposition of Jewish metaphysics written in Greek.

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Metaphysics is an attempt to extend science by means that some proponents claim are the same as those used in science.

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His poems dealt with metaphysics, immortality, love, memory and beauty.

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But Mr Grossman's metaphysics go one better than Yair's.

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And policymakers mostly eschew metaphysics.

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