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metaphysics 
  n functioning as sing 
1 the branch of philosophy that deals with first principles, esp. of being and knowing 
2 the philosophical study of the nature of reality, concerned with such questions as the existence of God, the external world, etc. 
3  See  →  descriptive metaphysics 
4 (popularly) abstract or subtle discussion or reasoning 
  (C16: from Medieval Latin, from Greek ta meta ta phusika the things after the physics, from the arrangement of the subjects treated in the works of Aristotle) 
♦  metaphysician 
♦  metaphysicist  n 

descriptive metaphysics 
  n functioning as sing the philosophical study of the structure of how we think about the world