Term

Metaphysics

The branch of philosophy that studies the ultimate grounds of existence and the structure of reality. Tolstoy calls it speculative philosophy.

A Confession, Leo Tolstoy

Explained in

• A Confession, Leo Tolstoy
• Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, William James

  The branch of philosophy that deals with the most general foundations of being: what exists, what the world is made of, whether it has a first cause.

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