antimetaphysics

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noun

The belief that spiritual and religious metaphysics is a delusion and pursuing it impedes the advancement of knowledge.

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Meanings

nounantimetaphysics (uncountable)

alternative anti-metaphysics

  1. uncountablehuman sciencesThe belief that spiritual and religious metaphysics is a delusion and pursuing it impedes the advancement of knowledge.

    Antimetaphysics is basically a Machian heritage.

    1999, Maria Carla Galavotti, Alessandro Pagnini, Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation, →ISBN
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    Almost nothing is more striking than the antimetaphysics imputed to Wittgenstein by those interpreters who, indeed, see him as so clearly antimetaphysical.

    2003, Anat Biletzki, (Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein, →ISBN

    At logical positivism's heart is antimetaphysics, or, to put it positively, a spirit of enlightenment and anti-metaphysical factual research

    2006, Sahotra Sarkar, Jessica Pfeifer, The Philosophy of Science, →ISBN, page 459

Origin

From anti- + metaphysics.

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