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Metaphysics is the science that questions the beyond of the physical world. It is about answering, for example, Leibniz’s question: “Why is there something, rather than nothing?” or to understand Plato saying that all cosmology can only be “a probable myth (ton eikota mython)”, because it is, “of all necessity the image of something” (Timaeus, 29b, 29d). It is this something, this necessary source of things that metaphysics sets out to reveal.

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If our science of nature remains hypothetical, it is not because of the weakness of our intelligence; it is because of a lack of reality in the object to be known. The ultimate reality of the universe is in its “beyond”: metaphysical science begins where physical science is forced to stop. The essential constraint of physics is in the constitution of its object of study: the physical. And while metaphysical questions often emerge in the study of the physical—from astrophysics to quantum mechanics—the physical sciences are not equipped to engage such questions. This is just one reason why we need metaphysics. 

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  • Metaphysics

    Does Truth Precede Knowledge?

    Bruno Bérard, Is truth simply the agreement between intelligence and reality? The distinction between logical and ontological truth shows, on the contrary, that knowledge presupposes an already intelligible reality: truth does not result from knowledge; it precedes it.

  • Metaphysics and Philosophy

    The Cogito, or Consciousness as a Loan

    Bruno Bérard, Does the Cogito truly ground the subject? What if, on the contrary, it revealed that the “I” does not ground itself? From Descartes to Jean Borella, this article explores the hypothesis of a consciousness that is not possessed by the self, but received as a form of participation—perhaps as a “loan.”

  • Metaphysics

    From Analogy to Paradox: Toward a Metaphysics of Intelligence

    Bruno Bérard, Analogy is one of the great tools of metaphysics. But is it sufficient to account for the way in which intelligence accesses reality? Drawing on Plato, Aristotle, Pascal, Kant, Nicholas of Cusa, and especially Jean Borella, this article shows how the paradox, far from being a mere contradiction, can become a true metaphysical operator: it reveals the limits of reason, opens the way to aporia, then to nescience, all the way to the threshold of the superintelligible.

  • Metaphysics and Science

    Can Time Exist Without Change?

    Fabio Llorella Costa, Can Time Pass When Absolutely No Change Occurs? This question, which lies at the heart of Sydney Shoemaker’s famous thought experiment, invites us to distinguish the measurement of time from its very nature. By revisiting this argument, Fabio R. Llorella Costa suggests that the hypothesis of “time without change” may already presuppose what it claims to prove. A clear and rigorous reflection leading from logical analysis to a genuinely ontological inquiry into the nature of becoming.

  • Metaphysics and Philosophy

    An Interview with Sylvie Paillat: The Metaphysics of Laughter

    Sylvie Paillat, Why has laughter occupied such a marginal place in the history of philosophy when it may well reveal one of the deepest dimensions of human existence? In this interview, Sylvie Paillat presents the central insights of her work The Metaphysics of Laughter. She argues that laughter, far from being merely a psychological or social phenomenon, can become a privileged avenue toward the great metaphysical questions: Being, consciousness, finitude, transcendence, and the meaning of the Logos. An original reflection that invites us to rethink philosophy itself in the light of a truly “metaphysical laughter.”

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Metafysikós is the transliteration of modern Greek μεταφυσικός ; ancient Greek metaphusika gave the Latin metaphysica.

About this website

This site has the ambition to make accessible to most people a metaphysical science which, freed from too many scientific or philosophical complexities, becomes easy to understand. Different books and articles, written with the aim of facilitating access, are thus presented one by one and a glossary of the few inevitable technical words has been established to make the approach even easier.

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