metaphysic

At least when it comes to satisfying existential anxiety, value and meaning can come without a commitment to supernatural metaphysics and magic.
Existential Comfort Without God - Issue 106: Intelligent Life|Tania Lombrozo|September 16, 2021|Nautilus
This is likely a reference to Ontology, a branch of philosophy that deals with metaphysics and the nature of being—which is all rather on brand for The Matrix.
How The Matrix Resurrections Trailer Evokes the Franchise's First Movie in Mysterious Ways|Eliana Dockterman|September 9, 2021|Time
Descartes opposed any effort to separate metaphysics from science.
We Have to Talk About Doubt - Issue 104: Harmony|David Krakauer|September 1, 2021|Nautilus
When he says he lives in harmony with nature, he’s not talking so much about metaphysics but sound ecological principles that propel his business and preserve the land.
The Ecology of Good Weed - Issue 104: Harmony|Madison Margolin|August 25, 2021|Nautilus

Physicists draw on metaphysics all the time, yet few of them are aware of what they do.
Your Guide to the Many Meanings of Quantum Mechanics - Facts So Romantic|Sabine Hossenfelder|September 3, 2020|Nautilus
The philosophy of Germany at the present day is making several attempts at a metaphysic of the universe.
An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy|W. Tudor Jones
But these three systems have not, except in a secondary way, attempted a metaphysic of human life.
An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy|W. Tudor Jones
And it is in this work that Eucken's Metaphysic of Life becomes a religious metaphysic.
An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy|W. Tudor Jones
The new religious metaphysic will then mean a real philosophy of values.
An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy|W. Tudor Jones
This, that physic inquires concerning the material and efficient causes, but metaphysic handles the formal and final causes.
The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII.|Various

British Dictionary definitions for metaphysic

metaphysic

/ (ˌmɛtəˈfɪzɪk) /

noun

the system of first principles and assumptions underlying an enquiry or philosophical theory

an obsolete word for metaphysician

adjective

rare another word for metaphysical

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