Can you give me an example of metaphysical.?

Question

I googled the definition and there were a lot...none of which I understood. So ..maybe an example would explain it better. Does it have to do with paranormal? I always thought it did.

Answer 1

cf. Aristotle, Metaphysics IV.6., "...they seek a reason for things for which no reason can be given; for the starting-point of demonstration is not demonstration."

Answer 2

Spirits etc.. I would think a good description would be energy manifesting into matter. Physically you can always touch matter, but in a sense, not always when it is in its raw form energy. Energy can manifest and be practically anything imaginable. This is where the idea of magick etc. comes from.

Answer 3

"...of or relating to the transcendent or to a reality beyond what is perceptible to the senses..."

There's a chopped version of M-W's definition.  Metaphysical means it is a spiritual and outside objective reality.  It is an internal, personal take on something.

I have thought for a while and can't seem to come up with a satisfactory (i.e. non-confusing) example.  I will update if anything comes to me.

Answer 4

It covers anything occult, paranormal, outside the accepted barriers of science and physics.

Discussions about what is God  or how big is the universe or where does it end. Crystals, Ouija boards are metaphysical things.

Answer 5

metaphysics has nothing to do with the paranormal, it is a new age religion. Its based on the beliefs that we are all our own gods , we are one with nature and the universe kind of stuff. It has nothing to do with hauntings, ghosts. It just a hippie religion along the lines of L ron hubbard and his church of scientology.

edit:The truth hurts

Answer 6

The term metaphysics originally referred to the writings of Aristotle that came after his writings on physics, in the arrangement made by Andronicus of Rhodes about three centuries after Aristotle's death. Traditionally, metaphysics refers to the branch of philosophy that attempts to understand the fundamental nature of all reality, whether visible or invisible. It seeks a description so basic, so essentially simple, so all-inclusive that it applies to everything, whether divine or human or anything else. It attempts to tell what anything must be like in order to be at all.

To call one a metaphysician in this traditional, philosophical sense indicates nothing more than his or her interest in attempting to discover what underlies everything. Old materialists, who said that there is nothing but matter in motion, and current naturalists, who say that everything is made of lifeless, non-experiencing energy, are just as much to be classified as metaphysicians as are idealists, who maintain that there is nothing but ideas, or mind, or spirit.

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