| He had both the subtle mind of the metaphysician and the penetrating insight of the disillusioned moralist. |
| In demonstrating his versatility, he shows himself to be as much skillful artisan as easy-going metaphysician. |
| For he, like the metaphysician, believes in the reality of that which absorbs his own mind. |
| I might hereif it so pleased medilate upon the matter of habiliment, and other mere circumstances of the external metaphysician. |
| At least in anglophone countries, Spinoza's reputation as a political thinker is eclipsed by his reputation as a rationalist metaphysician. |
| Dr. Thomson Reid, the eminent Scottish metaphysician, used to be found working in his garden in his eighty-seventh year. |
