antimetaphysics en · NOUN
Etymology
From anti- + metaphysics.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The 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: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: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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| anti-metaphysics | alternative | lexicographic |
Relateds
antimetaphysicality · positivism · physicalism · materialism · atheism · antimetaphysically · antimetaphysical