metaphysician

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a philosopher who studies or develops theories about metaphysics

   The metaphysician asked what it means for an object to persist through change.

From late Middle English metaphisicien, probably through Middle French metaphysicien, formed from metaphysic on the model of words such as physician. Metaphysics ultimately takes its name from the Greek title ta meta ta physika, "the works after the Physics."

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