metaphysical claim
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metaphysical
adjective
uk/ˌmet.əˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌmet̬.əˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/
relating to the part of philosophy that is about understanding existence ...
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claim
noun[C]
uk/kleɪm/us/kleɪm/
a statement that something is true or is a fact, although other people might not ...
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It is not somemetaphysicalclaimone must first believe, on the basis of which one then develops inwardness.
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This is ametaphysicalclaim.
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It is, of course, true that earlier thinkers sought to justify their faith through the defence of metaphysical claims.
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These metaphysical remnants, however, neither express nor pretend to offer any metaphysical claims apart from the normative context.
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External propositions about morality are frequently claimed to rest on nonnormative metaphysical claims about what kinds of properties exist in the universe. 14.
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Sankara's metaphysical claims can be salvaged as a result, not even some of his most fundamental claims.
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P3 articulates perhaps the most problematic metaphysical claims of the simplicity tradition.
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Calvin operates with a set of core metaphysical claims, grounded in divine simplicity and including immutability and timeless eternity.
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This predicate theology, while continuing to use theistic language, again makes few metaphysical claims that non-believers would find objectionable.
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He considered that there was no objective way to define the requirements of justice and that invocations of justice cloaked purely subjective preferences or unacceptable metaphysical claims.
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This means that in making public claims one must refrain from religious or otherwise controversial metaphysical claims that can not, in principle, be equally endorsed by reasonable persons.
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