be metaphysical

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But historically, it has sometimes been argued to be metaphysical because measuring the existence of something requires interacting with it, and by definition, we cannot receive signals from beyond our event horizon.

From Scientific American • Jan. 1, 2023

Nick Flynn: Let me think—"so strange / to imagine . . ." I mean it gets very, you know, more than most of my poems, it gets very—would that be metaphysical, or—?

From The New Yorker • Sep. 19, 2018

The vignettes can be metaphysical or as simple as a curious cat peering into a number 4.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tessa did not forget to be metaphysical even at midnight with the tears of a dream on her eyelashes.

From Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Drinkwater, Jennie M.

It was noticeable also that for the first time Chautauqua chose this day in which to be metaphysical and scientific, to the exclusion of personal religion.

From Four Girls at Chautauqua by Pansy