antimetaphysics
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The belief that spiritual and religious metaphysics is a delusion and pursuing it impedes the advancement of knowledge.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Antimetaphysics is basically a Machian heritage."
- "Almost nothing is more striking than the antimetaphysics imputed to Wittgenstein by those interpreters who, indeed, see him as so clearly antimetaphysical."
- "At logical positivism's heart is antimetaphysics, or, to put it positively, a spirit of enlightenment and anti-metaphysical factual research"
Etymology
From anti- + metaphysics.