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

His first role at the University of Naples was to lecture on logic and metaphysics.

From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 2023

He practices a cinema of heady ideas, mind-churning metaphysics and rug-pulling narrative gamesmanship — not an intuitive fit with the more traditional conventions of the Hollywood biopic.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 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