| Various dictionaries trace its first appearance in English to the mid-sixteenth century, although in some cases as early as 1387 | George as The Logical Structure of the World |
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| Peter Gay, The Enlightenment, vol | "Ontological frameworks for scientific theories" |
| Chalmers, David; Manley, David; Wasserman, Ryan 2009 | Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction |
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| What is it that is, whatever it is that there is like? In the English language, the word comes by way of the metaphysica, the neuter plural of metaphysika |
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