[MD] Metaphysics

X Acto xacto at rocketmail.com
Mon Jan 11 05:38:56 PST 2010





To clear up what the term "metaphysics" means
allow me to begin with what Aristotle first called
his collection of class notes, "Theory of meaning".

. "The word ‘metaphysics’ and the concept of metaphysics. 
The word ‘metaphysics’ is notoriously hard to define. 
Twentieth-century coinages like ‘meta-language’ and 
‘metaphilosophy’ encourage the impression that 
metaphysics is a study that somehow “goes beyond” physics, 
a study devoted to matters that transcend the mundane concerns 
of Newton and Einstein and Heisenberg. This impression is mistaken." 
-Stanford encyclopedia of philosphy
 
"The word ‘metaphysics’ is derived from a collective title of 
the fourteen books by Aristotle. At least one hundred years 
after Aristotle's death, an editor of his works (in all probability, 
Andronicus of Rhodes) entitled those fourteen books 
“Ta meta ta phusika”—“the after the physicals” or
 “the ones after the physical ones”—, the “physical ones” 
being the books contained in what we now call Aristotle's Physics."
-Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy
 
Building a belief of experience, because lets face it, Bo is not
forwarding what we would understand as a "theory" but a belief
that meataphysics is reality. Building a belief such as this one
on a mistaken impression of a word is terribly unsound.


      



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