| Pataphysics is the absurdist concept of a philosophy or science dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics. |
| It is the basis of his attack on transcendent metaphysics, and on all religions that postulate an afterlife. |
| He constructed a system which embraces metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, ethics, and the meaning of life. |
| Physics, when studied in depth, is not able to quench the scientist's thirst and soon melts into metaphysics. |
| It must ask, as Kant asked about metaphysics after Hume's critique of rationalism, how is philosophy still possible? |
| The controversy in metaphysics between idealism and realism is that, for the idealist, nothing exists independently of the mind. |
