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As I understand it, that is not the etymology of metaphysics.

In fact metaphysics means the subject matter of the books Aristotle wrote after (meta) he wrote The Physics.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/metaphysics https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/metaphysics#Etymology




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