Antiphysical

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Meaning

Contrary to nature; unnatural;.

Definitions by Sense

1. Contrary to nature; unnatural;
2. Nonphysical; abstract, mental, intellectual, or spiritual.
3. Repulsed by the physical.

Example Sentences

According to all the laws of hydrostatics, the water which flows into a brewery should leave it through its drains. Its exit in barrels on drays is antiphysical.

Quaternionics was in its vectorial aspects antiphysical and unnatural, and did not harmonize with common scalar mathematics.

The antiphysical suggestion of aluminum is at any rate a red herring, since even if we fancifully imagine that it is aluminum, the only way it could have gotten to glow so brightly is with a considerable amount of extremely powerful incendiary.

If one does not consider the movement in the representation, it appears as an antiphysical representation, the opposite of nature. But if one considers the creative impulse that melds one form into another, one sees nature itself as a growing and developing force.

The continuing impact on Jefferson of Reid's antiskepticism and that of his followers is clear in a statement he made to John Adams in 1820: "Rejecting all organs of information, therefore, but my senses, I rid myself of the pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical, so uselessly occupy and disquiet the mind .

This superannuated scholasticism has been generally called metaphysical from the order of Aristotle's works, but is more properly antiphysical.

It will be of some help to us in understanding de Rougemon't thesis if we have a clear sense of this romantic tradition with its curiously antiphysical understanding of sexual love and eros.

Because theorists like Žižek see Hegel's dialectic as anticipating and making possible Lacan's "antiphysical" take on language, because Žižek believes that “ the Hegelian dialectic begins with a chasm opened up between words and things " (Johnston 2008: 263), it's interesting to note the similarity between what Hegel says here about "the principle of self-movement" and what we earlier saw Lacan say bout the movement of the signifier—"The signifier is a unique unit of being which, by its very nature, is the symbol of but an absence.

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