Metaphysics, in modern philosophy, refers to:

A. things that are beyond physics.

B. the study of the principles of physical motion.

C. the study of the most fundamental principles of the nature of things.

D. the study of phenomena which are beyond nature.
E. the study of the unknowable.


Answer: C

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