PHL 201 Lecture Notes - The Conscious Mind, Natural Kind, Cactus

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The investigation into what types of things there are in the world and what relations these things bear to one another. The word derives from the greek words meta (meaning beyond or after) and physica (meaning physical), physical referring to those works on the nature of matter [i. e. an inquiry into stuff ] by aristotle. The prefix meta- (beyond) was attached to the chapters in aristotle"s work that physically followed after the chapters on physics, in posthumously edited collections. Aristotle himself did not call these works metaphysics but usually first philosophy . The view that everything real is matter or material or energy. All things are composed of material and all phenomena (including consciousness) are the result of material interactions. In other words, matter is the only substance. Matieralism is an example of an ontological monism . (ontological = what is there?) (monism = one type of thing)

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