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If physics describes the behavior of things (gravity, velocity, atomic interaction), metaphysics asks what a “thing” is in the first place.
(the father of modern philosophy) started from radical doubt. His famous Cogito ergo sum ("I think, therefore I am") is a metaphysical foundation: the certainty of the thinking self. He then famously divided reality into two distinct substances: res cogitans (thinking mind) and res extensa (extended matter). This is known as Cartesian dualism . Metafisica
We are all metaphysicians when we look up at the stars and wonder, "Is this all there is?" Metafisica is the discipline of taking that wonder and trying to build a logical structure around it. It reminds us that reality is far stranger—and deeper—than the objects we can touch. If physics describes the behavior of things (gravity,