(1) So, for Heidegger, the nothing that opens in the experience of anxiety leads one to pose the metaphysical question as to the meaning of being.(2) David is not a character of merit or interest, no matter what metaphysical hoops he is forced through.(3) It begins to appear that the metaphysical question of determinism is quite irrelevant to the rationality of our ascription of responsibility.(4) This metaphysical question has been much discussed.(5) John Donne, metaphysical poetry, ovarian cancer and chemotherapy might not normally suggest an entertaining night at the theatre.(6) However, especially for those of us who find such metaphysical disputes sterile, questions about the paranormal have a very important part to play in the debate.(7) As an woman whose very life is jeopardized by the laws of the land, she responds to a different set of constraints, more material than metaphysical .(8) But either way, ID is a metaphysical explanation by its nature, not merely by its implications.(9) These belief assumptions, of course, do raise truth claims of a metaphysical nature, but the way goes from within and out, and not the other way around.(10) It is only then that the union of the physical and the metaphysical becomes complete, and the body does what the mind tells it to do.(11) Perhaps Kant was correct when he said that although we can never hope to answer our metaphysical questions, we can't help asking them anyway.(12) Our situation is something like the one to which we are assigned by a considerable number of metaphysical philosophers, notably Plato.(13) Even as intellectuals dismiss the nation-space as a metaphysical concept, a transcendent notion, countless people across the world die and kill in the name of a nation.(14) In the hands of Velu00e1zquez, the existence of a jester could have the same physical - and metaphysical - scale as that of an aristocrat.(15) They'll agree to explain the properties we're talking about in scientific terms, and still insist that their metaphysical questions remain.(16) Again, we find no reason to suppose that metaphysical issues can be cleanly detached from epistemological concerns.
