Metaphysics vs Null - What's the difference?
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(philosophy, uncountable) The branch of philosophy which studies fundamental principles intended to describe or explain all that is, and which are not themselves explained by anything more fundamental; the study of first principles; the study of being insofar as it is being (ens in quantum ens ).
(philosophy, countable) The view or theory of a particular philosopher or school of thinkers concerning the first principles which describe or explain all that is.
(uncountable, by extension from the philosophical sense) Any fundamental principles or rules.
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(uncountable) The study of a supersensual realm or of phenomena which transcend the physical world.
(uncountable) Displeasingly abstruse, complex material on any subject.
(countable) Plural of countable senses of metaphysic.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between metaphysics and null
is that metaphysics is (philosophy|uncountable) the branch of philosophy which studies fundamental principles intended to describe or explain all that is, and which are not themselves explained by anything more fundamental; the study of first principles; the study of being insofar as it is being (ens in quantum ens ) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.metaphysics
English
(wikipedia metaphysics)Noun
- Philosophers sometimes say that metaphysics is the study of the ultimate nature of the universe.
- The metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas holds that all real beings have both essence and existence.
- In Aristotelian metaphysics physical objects have both form and matter.
- In his ''Pensées'', Pascal mentioned some first principles recognized within his metaphysics : space, time, motion, and number.
Gorbachev: The Unlikely Patron of Change," Time :
- The metaphysics of global power has changed. Markets are now more valuable than territory.
- I have a collection of books on metaphysics , covering astral projection, reincarnation, and communication with spirits.
- This political polemic strikes me as a protracted piece of overwrought, fog shrouded metaphysics !
Meronyms
* ontologyDerived terms
* metaphysical * metaphysician * metaphysicistnull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.