1560s, plural of Middle English metaphisik, methaphesik (late 14c.), "branch of speculation which deals with the first causes of things," from Medieval Latin metaphysica, neuter plural of Medieval Greek (ta) metaphysika, from Greek ta meta ta physika "the (works) after the Physics," title of the 13 treatises which traditionally were arranged after those on physics and natural sciences in Aristotle's writings. The name was given c.70 B.C.E. by Andronicus of Rhodes, and was a reference to the customary ordering of the books, but it was misinterpreted by Latin writers as meaning "the science of what is beyond the physical." See meta- + physics. The word originally was used in English in the singular; plural form predominated after 17c., but singular made a comeback late 19c. in certain usages under German influence.
雙語例句
1. Promote materialist dialectics and oppose metaphysics and scholasticism.
要提倡唯物辯證法,反對形而上學和煩瑣哲學.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
2. There is an alliance between logic and metaphysics.
邏輯與形而上學之間有類似之處.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
3. Kant's work on the critique of experience became ultimately indistinguishable from ontology and metaphysics.
康德關于經驗的評論著作最終與本體論和形而上學混為一談。
來自柯林斯例句
4. Metaphysics is concerned with the description of the fundamental aspects of reality.
形而上學研究的是對現實的根本方面的描述.
來自哲學部分
5. He investigates theology, and metaphysics and all sorts of subjects.