The branch of philosophy which studies fundamentalprinciples intended to describe or explain all that is, and which are not themselves explained by anything more fundamental; the study of first principles; the study of being insofar as it is being (ens in quantum ens).
The view or theory of a particular philosopher or school of thinkers concerning the first principles which describe or explain all that is.
1560s; plural of metaphysic, from Middle English methaphesik, methaphisik, methaphisique, metaphesyk, methafisik, metaphesyk, methephysyk, from Old French metafisique, methaphisique and Medieval Latin metaphysica, methephisica, from Byzantine Greek μεταφυσικά, from the title of the collection by Aristotle [[μετά, a collection that comes after (μετά) Aristotle's collection entitled [[τά, from φυσικός.
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