| Various dictionaries trace its first appearance in English to the mid-sixteenth century, although in some cases as early as 1387 | "The electron theory of valence" |
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| Peter Gay, The Enlightenment, vol | Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2009 |
In the English language, the word comes by way of the metaphysica, the neuter plural of metaphysika.
| What is it that is, whatever it is that there is like? "Ontological frameworks for scientific theories" | |
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| George as The Logical Structure of the World | Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction |
Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings.
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