As Crary notes, "movement and time could be seen and experienced, but never represented" (34), and hence the camera obscura "is inseparable from a certain metaphysic of interiority: it is a figure for both the observer who is nominally a free sovereign individual and a privatized subject confined in a quasi-domestic space, cut off from a public exterior world" (39). ❋ Unknown (2005)
A very little reflection will be sufficient to satisfy us that without the aid of conceptions higher than those of sense-experience -- and that is all the word metaphysic means -- it would be absolutely impossible to formulate a single scientific generalisation. ❋ W. R. Washington Sullivan (N/A)
The metaphysic of speculative reason is what is commonly called metaphysic in the more limited sense. ❋ Immanuel Kant (1764)
One can say, at any rate, that deformed in his own private life, he became absorbed in what has come to be called the metaphysic of a bureaucratic nightmare in which one is born powerless, accused and self-accused, not knowing of what. ❋ Pritchett, V.S. (1982)
The speculative part of metaphysic, which has especially appropriated this appellation -- that which we have called the metaphysic of nature -- and which considers everything, as it is (not as it ought to be), by means of a priori conceptions, is divided in the following manner. ❋ Immanuel Kant (1764)
If there exists on any subject a philosophy (that is, a system of rational knowledge based on concepts), then there must also be for this philosophy a system of pure rational concepts, independent of any condition of intuition, in other words, a metaphysic. ❋ Immanuel Kant (1764)
The system which has thus arisen appears to be a kind of metaphysic narrowed to the point of view of the individual mind, through which, as through some new optical instrument limiting the sphere of vision, the interior of thought and sensation is examined. ❋ Unknown (2007)
You start with a limerick, you conclude with a metaphysic: man alone and pants-down absurd in a universe crammed with meanings. ❋ Unknown (2010)
(The Modern account of nature) And a curious paper by Wolfgang Schmidt, who contends that the paradoxes of quantum theory are due entirely to the Cartesian metaphysic adopted by the Moderns: "From Schroedinger's Cat to Thomistic Ontology." ❋ M_francis (2009)
He also warns against metaphysic construction of time. ❋ Jason Derr (2011)
For this reason it can be said with certainty that the first chapter of Genesis has established an unassailable point of reference and a solid basis for a metaphysic and also for an anthropology and an ethic, according to which ens et bonum convertuntur (being and the good are convertible). ❋ Unknown (2009)
But even as early as The Innocents Abroad (1869), in which Twain pleasure-cruises to the Holy Land in the company of religious tourists, his boisterous American philistinism was becoming a sort of metaphysic. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It seems to me what is important to Dawkins is avoiding at all cost, any violation of his core Darwinian story/gospel/metaphysic. ❋ Unknown (2008)
So they attack those whose dissents may include room for a religious metaphysic instead, turning what should be an entirely scientific debate into the usual Dueling Metaphysics between religion and atheism, a cat fight that will never end so long as there are humans to fight about it. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Shroff's writing has little in common with the standard American short story's constriction, narcissism, and exhibitionism; the influence of Chekhov and other Russians clearly comes through in an expansive, restful melancholy, a metaphysic that is simultaneously hot and cool. ❋ Unknown (2010)
