Metaphysics ~ the awareness of the seen and unseen reality, with the understanding that the unseen that we have not discovered still resides in the seen we know; there is the place, the nexus of the seen and the unseen, it lies within our consciousness. WH
metaphysics
noun, plural in form but singular in construction meta·phys·ics \-ˈfi-ziks\
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Definition of metaphysics
- 1a (1) : a division of philosophy that is concerned with the fundamental nature of reality and being and that includes ontology, cosmology, and often epistemology <metaphysics … analyzes the generic traits manifested by existences of any kind — J. H. Randall> (2) : ontology 2b : abstract philosophical studies : a study of what is outside objective experience
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Just as physics deals with the laws that govern the physical world (such as those of gravity or the properties of waves), metaphysics describes what is beyond physics—the nature and origin of reality itself, the immortal soul, and the existence of a supreme being. Opinions about these metaphysical topics vary widely, since what’s being discussed can’t be observed or measured or even truly known to exist. So most metaphysical questions are still as far from a final answer as they were when Plato and Aristotle were asking them.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary – online
Philosophy noun phi·los·o·phy \ fə-ˈlä-s(ə-)fē \
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1 a (1) :all learning exclusive of technical precepts and practical arts
(2) :the sciences and liberal arts exclusive of medicine, law, and theology
b (1) archaic :physical science
(2) :ethics
c :a discipline comprising as its core logic, aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology
2 a :pursuit of wisdom
b :a search for a general understanding of values and reality by chiefly speculative rather than observational means
c :an analysis of the grounds of and concepts expressing fundamental beliefs
3 a :a system of philosophical concepts
b :a theory underlying or regarding a sphere of activity or thought
4 a :the most basic beliefs, concepts, and attitudes of an individual or group
Merriam-Webster Dictionary – online
philosophy ~ the knowledge, the thinking, the understanding that comprises an individuals or a groups view of reality; world-view. Philosophy is not an abstract process of an intellectual exercise, but the discipline of experience applied to our cognitive processes. WH
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, stated by Sherlock Holmes
August 2
Morning Verse
“Who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will.” Ephesians 1:11
Our belief in God’s wisdom supposes and necessitates that He has a settled purpose and plan in the work of salvation. What would creation have been without His design? Is there a fish in the sea, or a fowl in the air, which was left to chance for its formation? Nay, in every bone, joint, and muscle, sinew, gland, and blood-vessel, you mark the presence of a God working everything according to the design of infinite wisdom. And shall God be present in creation, ruling over all, and not in grace? Shall the new creation have the fickle genius of free will to preside over it when divine counsel rules the old creation? Look at Providence! Who knoweth not that not a sparrow falleth to the ground without your Father? Even the hairs of your head are all numbered. God weighs the mountains of our grief in scales, and the hills of our tribulation in balances. And shall there be a God in providence and not in grace? Shall the shell be ordained by wisdom and the kernel be left to blind chance. No; He knows the end from the beginning. He sees in its appointed place, not merely the corner-stone which He has laid in fair colours, in the blood of His dear Son, but He beholds in their ordained position each of the chosen stones taken out of the quarry of nature, and polished by His grace; He sees the whole from corner to cornice, from base to roof, from foundation to pinnacle. He hath in His mind a clear knowledge of every stone which shall be laid in its prepared space, and how vast the edifice shall be, and when the top-stone shall be brought forth with shoutings of “Grace! Grace! unto it.” At the last it shall be clearly seen that in every chosen vessel of mercy, Jehovah did as He willed with His own; and that in every part of the work of grace He accomplished His purpose, and glorified His own name.
Morning and Evening.
