It also contrasts with classical liberal notions of natural law, which are grounded in metaphysical notions of morality rather than a dynamic materialist or physicalist conception of the world.

Few philosophers are able to penetrate mathematical notations and culture to relate conventional notions of metaphysics to the more specialized metaphysical notions of the schools above.

He had won back from exile, by his own efforts, and he didn't like the metaphysical notion that he might just be a pawn of fate.

To argue against such a law on the ground that what is past cannot operate now, is to introduce the old metaphysical notion of cause, for which science can find no place.

In Heraclitus the constant flux is a metaphysical notion replaced by the interchange of material elements which Chrysippus stated as a simple proposition of physics.

Though the Marxist's progression of feudalism to capitalism to socialism to communism may have been abandoned, the metaphysical notion of laws of history has not.

The old metaphysical notion of God as the Supreme Being, which has long been popular in the West, is also felt to be unsatisfactory.

I admire Annie Besant when it comes to everything but her metaphysical notions.

He explains that in this endeavour the positivists contradict themselves by borrowing a metaphysical notion to destroy the idea of metaphysics.

Rejecting as muddled the metaphysical notion of free will, he focuses on political freedom, the absence of coercion or interference by others in personal decisions.