metaphysics

=Metaphysics=

toc Read here about metaphysics, a philosophical category that could pertain to the study of scale.

=Definition=

Mumford wrote: Both science and metaphysics are concerned with the question of what there is and, to that extent, they have the same subject matter. Historically, some of the most significant debates in metaphysics have concerned the nature of universals (properties and relations), substance, causation, laws of nature, modality, identity, time, and truth.

The term “metaphysics” comes from Aristotle’s book of that name in which he discusses various problems that are of this general nature. Aristotle did not call it metaphysics but, rather, the study of Being qua Being (Metaphysics, Book IV.1). It should be conceded, however, that there is very little agreement over the precise nature of metaphysics, even among the metaphysicians themselves. The nature of metaphysics is one among the number of problems considered by metaphysicians.

=Conclusion=

The term is not well defined, and is associated in general parlance with mystical activity: we avoid the term.