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.
双语例句
1. Promote materialist dialectics and oppose metaphysics and scholasticism.
要提倡唯物辩证法,反对形而上学和烦琐哲学.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2. There is an alliance between logic and metaphysics.
逻辑与形而上学之间有类似之处.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
3. Kant's work on the critique of experience became ultimately indistinguishable from ontology and metaphysics.
康德关于经验的评论著作最终与本体论和形而上学混为一谈。
来自柯林斯例句
4. Metaphysics is concerned with the description of the fundamental aspects of reality.
形而上学研究的是对现实的根本方面的描述.
来自哲学部分
5. He investigates theology, and metaphysics and all sorts of subjects.