The metaphysical basis of a Sufi interpretation is Kashf (unveiling) or Zawq (tasting).

It also gave him a metaphysical basis for his belief that all human personality has dignity and worth.

His lectures, delivered in 1664, 1665, and 1666, were published in 1683 under the title Lectiones Mathematicae; these are mostly on the metaphysical basis for mathematical truths.

Psychology was not for him a branch of physiology, nor on the other hand did he give to his theory an abstruse metaphysical basis.

This is the metaphysical basis for Sri Aurobindo's yoga, the discipline given to consciously unite our phenomenal existence and life with our essential Reality.

The 20th century American composer Charles Ives used the camp meeting phenomenon as a metaphysical basis for his Symphony No. 3 (Ives).

Despite the metaphysical basis for the term, academics in science, aesthetics, heuristics, psychology, and gender-based sociological studies have advanced their causes under the banner of Essentialism.

The metaphysical basis of this idea was the fact that such unity, was thought to be a metaphor for the unity of God's creation.

Both philosophers undermined the metaphysical basis of natural theology and criticized classical arguments for the existence of God.

By its very nature, this is an historic, philosophic and moral issue with a metaphysical basis which therefore concerns each and every one of us.