| In demonstrating his versatility, he shows himself to be as much skillful artisan as easy-going metaphysician. |
| The dexterity with which he counterfeits sanity presents, to the metaphysician, one of the most singular problems in the study of mind. |
| In this role, as with his solo work, he's a miner of sonic archaeologies, a metaphysician of the eddies, currents and whirlpools of the past. |
| He had both the subtle mind of the metaphysician and the penetrating insight of the disillusioned moralist. |
| Dr. Thomson Reid, the eminent Scottish metaphysician, used to be found working in his garden in his eighty-seventh year. |
| At least in anglophone countries, Spinoza's reputation as a political thinker is eclipsed by his reputation as a rationalist metaphysician. |
