antimetaphysics

See also: anti-metaphysics

English

Alternative forms

• anti-metaphysics

Etymology

From anti- +‎ metaphysics.

Noun

antimetaphysics (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) The belief that spiritual and religious metaphysics is a delusion and pursuing it impedes the advancement of knowledge.
   • 1999, Maria Carla Galavotti, Alessandro Pagnini, Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation, →ISBN:

     Antimetaphysics is basically a Machian heritage.

   • 2003, Anat Biletzki, (Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein, →ISBN:

     Almost nothing is more striking than the antimetaphysics imputed to Wittgenstein by those interpreters who, indeed, see him as so clearly antimetaphysical.

   • 2006, Sahotra Sarkar, Jessica Pfeifer, The Philosophy of Science, →ISBN, page 459:

     At logical positivism's heart is antimetaphysics, or, to put it positively, a spirit of enlightenment and anti-metaphysical factual research

Related terms

• antimetaphysical
• antimetaphysically
• antimetaphysicality

See also

• atheism
• materialism
• positivism
• physicalism