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metaphysics - History of metaphysics, Central questions of metaphysics, Criticism, Metaphysical subdisciplines, Metaphysical topics and problems, Metaphysicians

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A traditional branch of philosophy which deals at the most general level with the nature of existence - what it is, what sorts of things exist, of what categories, and in what structure. The term is popularly used to refer to the suprasensible, beyond the realm of experience. The origin of the term is a reference to the text Aristotle wrote ‘after the Physics’.

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