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Definition:
The term etiology simply means the "study of first things.". It is commonly
used as a label for stories which are supposed to explain origins, such as origins
of an ethnic group, a religion, or even of reality itself.
There is also what is known as the etiological argument, an argument for the existence of god more commonly called the cosmological argument and which starts from the assumption of the existence of a First Cause and works from there.
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In Western philosophy, metaphysics has become the study of the fundamental nature of all reality - what is it, why is it, and how are we to understand it. Some only regard metaphysics as the study of "higher" reality or the "invisible" nature behind everything, but that isn't actually true. It is, instead, the study of all of reality, visible and invisible.What is Philosophy?
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