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
"Oh, if you're going to be metaphysical, I'm off to my little bed."
From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May
To this it is objected, that perhaps all our ideas derived from experience are false, and that the only method of determining Good would be metaphysical, and a priori.
From The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)
