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Extension (metaphysics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (265 words) |
 | For John Locke, extension is "only the space that lies between the extremities of the solid coherent parts" of a body. |
| Kant maintained a distinction between the mind and the body, differentiating space as the realm of the body and time the realm of the mind. |
| Metaphysics have largely disappeared from contemporary philosophy, rendering extension as a term reserved for historical inquiry. |
| CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Metaphysics (8540 words) |
| Metaphysics, in so far as it treats of immaterial beings, is called special metaphysics and is divided into rational psychology, which treats of the human soul, rational theology, which treats of the existence and attributes of God, and cosmology, which treats of the ultimate principles of the universe. |
| Metaphysics, in fact, is the most real of all the sciences precisely because by abstracting from everything eise, it has centred, so to speak, its thought on Being, which is the source and root of reality everywhere else in the other sciences. |
| The condition of metaphysics is, indeed, such as to invite the contempt and provoke the disdain of the scientist; the fault, however, may lie not so much in the claims of metaphysics as in the vagaries of the metaphysicians. |
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