According to Wittgenstein's logical-atomistic metaphysical system, objects each have a " nature ," which is their capacity to combine with other objects.

While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.

Agnosticism is the view that the truth values of certain claims — especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims — are unknown and ( so far as can be judged ) unknowable.

Despite being at one time a defender of metaphysical realism, Hilary Putnam later abandoned this view in favor of a position he termed " internal realism ".

He offers a criticism of nature worship ; a study of humanity's metaphysical loneliness, and his view that we can consider God to be in search of humanity.

Although he rejected the transcendental / metaphysical interpretation given to these phenomena outright, Braid accepted that these accounts of Oriental practices supported his view that the effects of hypnotism could be produced in solitude, without the presence of any other person ( as he had already proved to his own satisfaction with the experiments he had conducted in November 1841 ); and he saw correlations between many of the " metaphysical " Oriental practices and his own " rational " neuro-hypnotism, and totally rejected all of the fluid theories and magnetic practices of the mesmerists.

Nominalism is a metaphysical view in philosophy according to which general or abstract terms and predicates exist, while universals or abstract objects, which are sometimes thought to correspond to these terms, do not exist.

Ian Hacking has also argued that much of what is called social constructionism of science in contemporary times is actually motivated by an unstated nominalist metaphysical view.

Neutral monism, in philosophy, is the metaphysical view that the mental and the physical are two ways of organizing or describing the same elements, which are themselves " neutral ," that is, neither physical nor mental.

This along with the beginning of two can be taken to be the relevant parts of Wittgenstein's metaphysical view that he will use to support his picture theory of language.

The notion of a static unchanging Form and its identity with Substance represents the metaphysical view that has come to be held as an assumption by the vast majority of the Western philosophical tradition since Plato and Aristotle, as it was something they agreed on.

Here ends what Wittgenstein deems to be the relevant points of his metaphysical view and he begins in 2. 1 to use said view to support his Picture Theory of Language.

Although Wittgenstein did not use the term himself, his metaphysical view throughout the Tractatus is commonly referred to as logical atomism.

However, the metaphorical view sets a metaphysical ground to the dilemma.

Idel characterizes this metaphysical point of view as " ditheism ," holding that there are two aspects to God, and the process of union as " theoeroticism.

Some philosophers, often inspired by David Lewis, argue that metaphysical concepts such as possibility, probability and necessity are best analyzed by comparing the world to a range of possible worlds ; a view commonly known as modal realism.

The discovery of the Second Law of Thermodynamics by Carnot in the 19th century showed that every physical quantity is not conserved over time, thus disproving the validity of inducing the opposite metaphysical view from Newton's laws.

The philosophers who held this view most clearly were Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Leibniz, whose attempts to grapple with the epistemological and metaphysical problems raised by Descartes led to a development of the fundamental approach of rationalism.

Science and Health posits a wholly metaphysical view of Christianity in which sin, disease, and death are not of God, and are therefore not real.

This metaphysical process elucidates the Kabbalistic view that every descent is for the purpose of higher ascent.

Later Islamic scholars viewed this work as a response to the metaphysical claim of Avicenna and Ibn Tufail that bodily resurrection cannot be proven through reason, a view that was earlier criticized by al-Ghazali.

Rousseau expressed a similar view that conscience somehow connected man to a greater metaphysical unity.

According to this analysis, the Buddha did not make the metaphysical assertion that nibbana is not self, but neither did he hold the metaphysical view that it is self.

Similarly, the ancient metaphysical and unfalsifiable idea of the existence of atoms has led to corresponding falsifiable modern theories.

This has led philosophers to raise questions like, if they exist, do they exist in the individuals or only in people's minds or in some separate metaphysical domain?

* Emanuel Swedenborg ( 1688 – 1772 ) Natural philosopher and theologian whose search for the operation of the soul in the body led him to construct a detailed metaphysical model for spiritual-natural causation.

Hume's empiricist epistemology led him to distrust Malebranche's confidence in discovering abstruse metaphysical truths through an intellectual union with God.

" While returning from a mission to Constantinople to persuade the Greeks to attend the Council of Florence, Nicholas had a shipboard experience that led to his writing thereafter on metaphysical topics.

A set of powerful parhelia in Rome in the Summer of 1629 caused René Descartes to interrupt his metaphysical studies and led to his work of natural philosophy called " The World ".

From his youth, Schuon's search for metaphysical truth led him to read the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita.

Closer study, however, has revealed that Lamsa promotes metaphysical, not evangelical teachings which have led him to inaccurate interpretations and translations of portions of the Bible.

In a paper presented at the conference on " New Age in the Old World " held at the Institut Oecumenique de Bossey, Céligny, Switzerland, Melton presented his views on the New Age movement, stating that it led to a dramatic growth of the older occult / metaphysical community, and created a much more positive image for occultism in Western culture.

While his earlier works were of a more contemplative nature and pondered metaphysical and religious questions, the Nazis ' rise to power led him to write more political works.

This led to a general devaluation of philosophical and metaphysical approaches to the faith, although some thinkers, notably Paul Tillich, attempted a median course between strict transcendence and ontological analysis of the human condition, a stand that caused a further division in the movement.

Wang's metaphysical ideas led him to a naturalist moral philosophy ( which brought him a lot of popularity in modern China ).

By contrast, Wittgenstein would later describe his task as bringing " words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use ".

In his early work, Ludwig Wittgenstein attempted to separate metaphysical and supernatural language from rational discourse.

In metaphysical models, theists generally believe some sort of afterlife awaits people when they die.

Because many members of religious traditions believe in things that exist in profoundly different ways from more everyday things, objects of religious belief both create particular philosophical problems and define central metaphysical concepts.

Nietzsche points to the Assassins as anti-ascetic ' free spirits ' who no longer believe in metaphysical truth.

In metaphysical models, theists generally believe some sort of afterlife awaits people when they die.

In addition, beliefs about the supernatural or metaphysical may not presuppose a difference between any such thing as nature and non-nature, nor between science and what the most educated people believe.

Some denominations believe that the higher self is a part of an individuals metaphysical identity, while others teach that the higher self is essentially our tie to the heavens.

Many believe that there is no such thing as objective reporting, that there will always be some form of implicit bias, whether political, personal, or metaphysical, whether intentional or subconscious.

The ESP hypothesis of mediumship has never been proven yet has been advocated by some parapsychologists who believe the explanation is more scientific and less far fetched than invoking metaphysical spirits.

We believe the logic of the book to be unanswerable, its laws fully deduced ", the rest of the sentence in the review reads " and the whole, considered as a play of metaphysical subtlety, absolutely complete ; and yet we venture to predict that its conclusions will not be accepted as probable by one in ten thousand readers.