Definition of "metaphysicians" [metaphysicians]

• Plural form of metaphysician. (noun)

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• "Neither the Jews, nor their earlier Hebrew ancestors, nor the Phoenicians before or after them, were in any sense of the word metaphysicians; nor did their language admit of those nicer distinctions and speculative conclusions which would have enabled any writer using it, thousands of years ago, to draw the commanding induction contained in this remarkable genesis."
• "In the other camp stood the 'metaphysicians' - aka the main-line western philosophical tradition from Plato to Kant."
• "The female metaphysicians, that is, those women whom Heaven has favored with a fortunate constitution, would take pleasure in recognizing in them their superiority over other women; they would not fail to congratulate themselves upon the delicacy of their own sentiments, and to consider them as works of their own creation."