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What are metaphysics?

>> No.11936286

bro what is existence? what if we're like a cell and the universe is an organism. what is the nature of the nature of science? what is being? yeah i know, pretty deep huh

>> No.11936302

>>11936286
How does that answer my question?

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metaphysics™ is spirituality for people who hate spirituality

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>>11936304
ftfy

>> No.11936356

>>11936302
>he thinks metaphysics is about answering anything
dude chill hit this bong right here yeah thats some good shit bro thats some good shit yeah put on some Afro hit em like cheech n chong and sell tapes from here to hong kong

like being in the world and shit dude, dasein whatever man, do you know that language is like unreliable and shit? i had this insight reading wittgenstein y'know like read plato and like yeah plato, let me tell you about plato he real important:
you have a world of cave or something, lil niggas are chained down there bro, one of them niggas goes up, sees the real shit and comes back to tell em. do you know what happen next? they ass fuck the nigga dude, yeah like ass fucking right there, and i'm thinking damn that's pretty deep. it's like when u get out of the projects and you come back your friend lil jamal ain't lil anymore and now he doing drugs n shit and your like jamal come on man get a job get out of this ghetto dude and jamal dies over some crack whore that he's fucked, hiv and shit. that moment i knew why plato was so important

>> No.11936496

>>11936326
(You)

>> No.11936500

>>11936356
cringe

>> No.11936591

Physics is the science that explores nature (including natural objects, processes, and phenomena).
Metaphysics is what goes beyond physics, in the sense that it does not study matter, but rather being itself. The fundamental questions of metaphysics are "What is a being?", "What does it mean to exist?", "What does it mean for something to become?". Physics could probably attempt to explain the perception of the passage of time as affected by the flux of atoms and by gravitational pull, but metaphysics would be the one to ask "What is time?".
Therefore, we can say that physics deals with phenomena and processes as they affect matter, but metaphysics desires to know pure es

>> No.11936602

>>11936591
*essences of concepts
Metaphysics could be thought of as not being directly useful to us because it does not deal directly with objects which we interact with. Instead, it's more of a base to understand what makes an object an object, or what makes an individual being different from a collectitvity of them.