metaphysics

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The company named the core of its product, Ontology, after the branch of metaphysics that studies existence.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

That friendship, though strengthened by economic ties, is rooted in metaphysics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

A new staging presented by Bedlam makes a valiant effort to adapt Stoppard’s cerebral probes into chaos theory, Newtonian law, thermodynamics and metaphysics for a 2023 audience, but the result is a muddled one.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2023

As we ate outside in the courtyard, he proceeded to go into further detail, defining metaphysics as a study of the fundamental nature of reality.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023

This sounds a lot like metaphysics to me, but the men in the audience don’t seem to take it amiss.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood