metaphysicistn.
/ˌmɛtəˈfɪzᵻsɪst/, U.S. /ˌmɛdəˈfɪzəsəst/ A person concerned with questions of a metaphysical, non-empirical, or hypothetical nature; a metaphysician.
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1875 Ladies' Repository Aug. 164 In England, the great physicists Huxley and Tyndall are hand in glove with the great skeptical historian and metaphysicist, David Hume.
1910 Philos. Rev. 19 482 It was Windelband who was chiefly active in introducing the rigorous metaphysicist Bergson into Germany.
1958 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 18 455 In this critique Tillich is the metaphysicist reasoning deductively.
1982 N.Y. Times 25 Apr. xi. 28/3 The lawyers, in turn, must hire planners, economists, sociologists, environmentalists and metaphysicists who can predict future rule changes.
1994 Sunday Record (Bergen, New Jersey) 18 Dec. s12/1 We'll leave it to the metaphysicists to decide whether Petrovic would have been on that ill-fated automobile ride in Germany if he had re-signed with the Nets.
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