extrametaphysical
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- (rare) Outside of metaphysics.
- 1861, The Church Monthly, Volumes 1-2[1], E.P. Dutton, page 10:
- To me that Arius, whose mind was acute and extrametaphysical, determined to resolve a question that cannot be explained, and, finding he could not, refused to hold it.
- 1953, Vasily Vasilyevich Zenkovsky, translated by George L. Kline, A Histor of Russian Philosophy. 2[2], New York: Columbia University Press, translation of original in Russian, page 834:
- We must admit that Shpet’s ‘extrametaphysical’ position is closer to pure Husserlianism. Losev, however, supplements phenomenology with dialectic because he is a metaphysician prior to any ‘strict’ method.
- 2014, Guy Collins, Faithful Doubt: The Wisdom of Uncertainty:
- Always working within metaphysics, Derrida is nonetheless committed to think the impossible, the extrametaphysical thought.