An Introduction to Metaphysics (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Explore how true understanding moves beyond fixed definitions to the lived experience of reality. This concise introduction examines two fundamental ways of knowing a thing: one that observes from the outside and one that enters into it from within. It argues that only intuition can grasp the object as it is in itself, while analysis tends to translate the moving world into static concepts.

In these pages, you’ll encounter clear discussions of duration, intuition, and the limits of symbolic reasoning. The author contrasts the inner, changing nature of experience with the flat view of analysis, and explains how science and philosophy fit into this ongoing debate. The work invites readers to rethink what it means to know something and to consider how our methods shape what we call knowledge.

• How intuition offers access to the absolute, beyond external viewpoints.


• Why analysis translates experience into symbols and why that changes what we perceive.


• The role of duration and becoming in our understanding of mind and reality.


• How Kantian and Platonist ideas relate to modern science and metaphysics.

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