This difficulty cannot be avoided in a metaphysical theory of morality.

The theory of evolution itself very often tends to become a metaphysical theory.

His metaphysical theory coincides precisely with his theological view, and is generally expressed in theological language.

Can the conclusions just summed up and the metaphysical theory adopted be brought into helpful connection?

And in the fundamental metaphysical theory of mysticism.'

The real truth of the philosophy of science lies in a separation between metaphysical theory and actual pursuits.

This view of the reciprocal causal independence of mind and matter has no basis except in metaphysical theory.

So, what we want for the negro is not a metaphysical theory of his perfect equality with the white man.

They are not to be declared impostors, either in whole or in part, beforehand, in order to save a metaphysical theory.

It will be remembered that, in the first chapter, the metaphysical theory broadly adopted was that which may be called Ideal-Realism.

When my Uncle Peter has mounted his favourite metaphysical theory, I know that nothing can make him dismount but physical violence.

Metaphysical theories were fewer, simpler, and equally impossible to prove or disprove.

He took Greek metaphysical theories, and, by the allegorical method, interpreted them in accordance with the Jewish Revelation.

Yet the metaphysical theories of savages, as expressed in Maori, Polynesian, and Zuni hymns, often amaze us by their wealth of abstract ideas.