METAPH

YSICS

Fernandez, Maria Virginia P.

IV-23 BSE General Science

BASIC QUESTIONS
What is Essence and Existence?
What is Being and Nothingness?
Is Reality objective or subjective?
Is it possible to have dual Identity?

DEFINITION
It the branch of Philosophy responsible for
the study of existence.
It is the foundation of a worldview. It answers
the question What is?
It encompasses everything that exists, as
well as the nature of existence itself.
It says whether the world is real, or merely
an illusion.
It is a fundamental view of the world around

WHAT ARE THE KEY

ELEMENTS OF A
RATIONAL
METAPHYSICS?

REALITY IS ABSOLUTE.
The world around us is real.
The physical world exists and every entity has a specific nature.

BASIC AXIOMS

EXISTENCE EXISTS
THE LAW OF IDENTITY
CONSCIOUSNESS

AXIOMS: DEFINITION
Statements that we cannot deny
without using them in our denial.
They are foundations of all
knowledge.
An attempt to contradict an axiom
can only end up in a contradiction.

EXISTENCE EXISTS
It states that there is something, as opposed to nothing.
I am aware of something
If one is aware of something is the proof that something in some
forms--- that existence