Thomas Aquinas was a notable metaphysician.

Professor Jones is an eminent metaphysician; she has produced more than one hundred refereed publications concerning metaphysics.

PROPOSITION IV.
That axiom of metaphysicians which is termed the principle of contradiction, and which affirms that it is impossible for any being to possess a quality, and at the same time not to possess it, is a consequence of the fundamental law of thought, whose expression is x² = x.

In 1928 Heidegger succeeded Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg and in his inaugural lecture made a pronouncement that earned him a reputation as an archetypal metaphysician with his claim that our awareness of people as a whole depends on our experience of dread in the face of nothingness.

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