This distinctions are more meaningful to me psychologically and linguistically than they are metaphysically. |
Psychologically perceptive and metaphysically curious, both men had a keen eye for understanding and decoding the human condition. |
Birth is a metaphysically arbitrary line, but it's a supremely salient socio-psychological one. |
I can't say I think one way is metaphysically better than the other. |
Sancho, as Kafka remarked, is a free man, but Don Quixote is metaphysically and psychologically bound by his dedication to knight errantry. |
Someone once defined sillage to me, rather metaphysically, as the sense of a person being present in the room after she has left. |