The centre' in this theory should therefore be understood, though Shils does not use this term, as a metaphysical entity.

The efforts by various schools were concentrated on explaining this order and the metaphysical entity at its source (Brahman).

His Quality was a metaphysical entity, not a mystic one.

When Quality enters the picture as a third metaphysical entity, the preselection of facts is no longer arbitrary.

They'd remain a metaphysical entity to us, never glimpsed or suspected.

Logical positivists in response wanted to stop such metaphysical entities from being used as an explanation.

According to him, ideas, memories, emotion and time, among other major categories, are metaphysical entities that have transcended every effort a being reduced to material existence.

Mental disorders were generally thought to reflect abstract metaphysical entities, supernatural agents, sorcery or witchcraft.

Perhaps a secular society needed another metaphysical entity to subjugate itself to after the death of God, and love was available for the job.

Through the intervention of a metaphysical entity, the puppet becomes animate.