单词 | metaphysical speculation |
释义 | metaphysical speculation The sheer usefulness of this has inspired much metaphysical speculation on ears. Times, Sunday Times She starts to reach for more nonrational explanations, lamenting 'the poverty of metaphysical speculation in our time'. Times, Sunday Times Ordinary language philosophers tended to be equally suspicious, diagnosing metaphysical speculation as the pathological result of using words outside the down-to-earth contexts that gave them meaning. The Times Literary Supplement His account of this 'new pleasure' (if less confessional than in his travel notebook) memorably weaves physical sensation and metaphysical speculation to the whiffs of a cigarette under the stars. The Times Literary Supplement Social science was influenced by positivism, focusing on knowledge based on actual positive sense experience and avoiding the negative; metaphysical speculation was avoided. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含147115条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。