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1. " In Dogen's terms, one understands neither with mind alone nor with body alone, but with one's "body-mind."(11) But this only describes how the teachings are authenticated, and does not rule out the possibility that the teachings are metaphysical in scope."

Source:   Schilbrack, Kevin. "METAPHYSICS IN DOGEN" Philosophy East and West 50.1 Jan. 1 2000: 34 Google This

2. " Kennedy's characters grapple with metaphysical complexities that most other British novelists would struggle to look square in the eye, let alone attempt to animate."

Source:   Mundy, Toby. "Everything You Need" New Statesman (1996) 128.4437 May 24 1999: 49-50 Google This

3. " The book contains nine other essays of similar caliber, some of which invite attention through their allusive titles alone: "A Critique of the Theology of Right"; "Only Theology Overcomes Metaphysics"; "The Poverty of Niebuhrianism." Vast learning..."

Source:   Cunningham, David S. "The Word Made Strange: Theology, Language, Culture" Theological Studies v59.n3 Sept. 1 1998: 536-539 Google This

4. " Perhaps it would be ostentatious and overbearing to indulge in metatextual, let alone metaphysical, pronouncements apropos of a literary piece, fathered by serendipity rather than by rigorous planning."

Source:   . "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" World Literature Today 74.1 Jan. 1 2000: 132 Google This

5. " 40. Parens, Metaphysics as Rhetoric, p. 161n.5, cites a passage from Natural Right and History occurring in the same chapter as the parallel passages."

Source:   Colmo, Christopher. "Alfarabi on the prudence of founders" Review of Politics 60.4 Sept. 22 1998: 719-721 Google This

6. " The death-blow to practiced paganism, the sight of the Sign metaphysically transmuted into a "vision" of the Unseen, occurs in Chapter Fifty-Three of the Qur'an, a narrative event that cyclically complements Chapter Twelve and the appearance of the figure of Joseph."

Source:   DABASHI, HAMID. "In the Absence of the Face" Social Research 67.1 Mar. 22 2000: 127 Google This

7. " These ambiguities make it difficult for economic analysis alone to predict the extent to which non-arm's length judgment proofing will occur or to answer the broader question of whether non-arm's length judgment proofing is adequately regulated by law."

Source:   Schwarcz, Steven L. "The inherent irrationality of judgment proofing" Stanford Law Review 52.1 Nov. 1 1999: 1 Google This

8. " The common response that asking such metaphysical questions is no longer valid in the wake of postmodernism demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of "the end of metaphysics" and surrenders uncritically to an atheistic interpretation of reality."

Source:   Zimmermann, Jens. "Quo vadis?: literary theory beyond postmodernism" Christianity and Literature 53.4 June 22 2004: 495-520 Google This

9. " For while many of Hugo's works contain humorous passages or characters, they also contain various other forms of laughter in which a comical tone is absent, in which laughter is dark and serves as the basis for philosophical or metaphysical questioning."

Source:   Roche, Isabel K. "Friedemann, Joe. Victor Hugo, un temps pour rire" Nineteenth-Century French Studies 33.1-2 Sept. 22 2004: 206-208 Google This

10. "... in a lot of the lyrics here: typical country-music themes of loneliness and displacement and the open road as metaphysical allegory. "All the answers that I started with/turned out questions in the end/as the years roll on my/and just like..."

Source:   . "Krauss fills 'Lonely Runs' with plenty for everyone" Washington Times Nov. 30 2004: 05 Google This

11. " The development of such a transcendental theory of freedom during the 1980s, now in critical dialogue with Hans Georg Gadamer and Jurgen Habermas, allows Demmer to systematically reinterpret the metaphysical question..."

Source:   Dell'Oro, Roberto. "Theologische Ethik als Handlungsleitende Sinnwissenschaft: Der Fundamentalethische Entwurf von Klaus Demmer" Theological Studies 65.4 Dec. 1 2004: 875-877 Google This

12. " Such questions are largely metaphysical and in general do not interest the modern scientist."

Source:   Langmuir, Irving. "Science, common sense and decency" ETC.: A Review of General Semantics 51.4 Dec. 1 2004: 600-611 Google This

13. " Immink then deals with Alvin Plantinga's assault on the doctrine by exposing his ontological and metaphysical assumptions and questioning his treatment of Aquinas -- claiming Anselm's..."

Source:   WHITE, VERNON. "Gijsbert van den Brink and Marcel Sarot" Religious Studies 36.2 June 1 2000: 233 Google This

14. " His skepticism toward metaphysics is shared by many democratic theorists, liberal, conservative, and radical, who are, on other questions, opposed to one another."

Source:   Dienstag, Joshua Foa. "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" Review of Politics 62.2 Mar. 22 2000: 351 Google This

15. " In this way he converts the metaphysical question of whether races exist into a linguistic question of whether race-talk is or can be meaningful, a conversion that brings the discussion under the purview of his main philosophical specialty, the philosophy of language."

Source:   Taylor, Paul C. "Appiah's Uncompleted Argument: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Reality of Race" Social Theory and Practice 26.1 Mar. 22 2000: 103 Google This

16. " With this shift, Christology has moved from an ahistorical, metaphysical approach to questions generated by and answered within the framework of the dogma of Chalcedon..."

Source:   LOEWE, WILLIAM P. "FROM THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST TO THE HISTORICAL JESUS" Theological Studies 61.2 June 1 2000: 314 Google This

17. " If he tries to tell a woman "all," including revelation of his metaphysical questions and insights, she might simply dismiss him: "That is not what I meant at all" (95-97)."

Source:   Saunders, Judith P. "The Love Song of Satin-Legs Smith: Gwendolyn Brooks Revisits Prufrock's Hell" Papers on Language & Literature 36.1 Jan. 1 2000: 3 Google This

18. " Another philosopheme, another sociality Odour and olfaction call into question the foundation of Western metaphysics: the separability of the self from the other."

Source:   Borthwick, Fiona. "Olfaction and Taste: Invasive Odours and Disappearing Objects" Australian Journal of Anthropology 11.2 Aug. 1 2000: 127 Google This

19. " Most of the papers, however, are devoted to questions of modality: the radical importance of contingency in Scotus' metaphysics, and the relationship of this system to the necessitarianism of Aristotle and to modern logics of possible worlds."

Source:   KENNY, ANTHONY. "John Duns Scotus" Journal of Ecclesiastical History 51.1 Jan. 1 2000: 150 Google This

20. "... engineering, or homosexuality. "It's true," says Pickstock, 30. "We haven't yet talked through ethical questions. [Instead] we emphasize what must come before." Build the metaphysical foundation, in other words, and the ethics will follow."

Source:   Tolson, Jay. "Academia's getting its religion back" U.S. News & World Report 129.8 Aug. 28 2000: 52 Google This

21. " Responding to the first question on Form 150, which asked me to describe the nature of the belief upon which my claim was based, I cited an essay that had impressed me deeply when I read it in a college metaphysics course."

Source:   Bates, Milton J. "FORCE and the Value of War Stories" Humanist 60.1 Jan. 1 2000: 24 Google This

22. " Like an earthquake of gigantic proportions, the collapse of Communism in the West shook all manner of political, strategic, and metaphysical certainties from their foundations, leaving questions and problems where dogma and habit had ruled."

Source:   . "American Power--For What?" Commentary 109.1 Jan. 1 2000: 21 Google This
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23. " Any answer to Rapp's question--"And how is this knowledge to be explained?" (9)--involves philosophical commitments as metaphysical as any thesis of Aquinas."

Source:   Seaton, James. "The Metaphysics of Postmodernism" Humanitas 12.1 Mar. 22 1999: 104 Google This

24. " It may, however, be possible to go beyond a shared moral consciousness toward certain common metaphysical principles that can fortify such a qualified pluralism--for instance, with regard to the question of personal and impersonal aspects of God."

Source:   Bengtsson, Jan Olof. "An Emblematic American" Humanitas 12.2 Sept. 22 1999: 104 Google This

25. "... we need to be able to offer some justification for what we do. The question of the relation of reason and morality is a psychological as well as a metaphysical one."

Source:   Grant, Ruth W. "Integrity and Conscience: Nomos XL" American Political Science Review 93.3 Sept. 1 1999: 708 Google This

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