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Metaphysically meaning
In a metaphysical manner. | Concerning metaphysics.
Example sentences (7)
In some cases, the hypothetical scenario might be considered metaphysically impossible, or impossible in any sense at all.
It sufficed for him to admit that they are metaphysically distinct: to be a human is to be a composite of soul and body, and the soul is superior to the body.
P2) If PTI and not Q is conceivable, then PTI and not Q is metaphysically possible.
P3) If PTI and not Q is metaphysically possible then physicalism is false.
So the claim then is that "PTI and not N" is metaphysically impossible.
Such emergentism claims that mental facts and physical facts are metaphysically distinct while maintaining the supervenience of mental properties on the physical.
The German Idealists Fichte and Schelling, for example, tried to bring traditional "metaphysically" laden notions like "the Absolute", "God", and "Being" into the scope of Kant's critical thought.