metaphysics
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Karp, who has a PhD in philosophy, is no ordinary CEO, and Palantir’s software architecture mirrors concepts from philosophy like ontology, a branch of metaphysics concerned with reality and existence.
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
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
When most people believed in an essentially static and unchanging universe, the question of whether or not it had a beginning was really one of metaphysics or theology.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
Vocabulary lists containing metaphysics
Tuck Everlasting
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The Enlightenment
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