Causation Quote by L.A. Paul

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

— Franz Grillparzer

To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our…

— Rudolph Rummel

Often the features metaphysicians are interested in, like causation, time, and essence, involve features that seem so basic or are so generally embedded in…

— L.A. Paul

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

— Aristotle

Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

— Josh Billings

Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both…

— Aristotle

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

— Edward Abbey

“Historically mystics have claimed that for a true understanding of reality metaphysics is too “scientific”. Metaphysics is not reality. Metaphysics is names about reality.…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Now these two questions Does there exist a material reality distinct from sensible appearances? and What is the nature of reality? do not have…

— Pierre Duhem

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

— Robert Penn Warren

Metaphysics is a science.

— Gabriel Marcel