Metaphysical Club

(noun)

A philosophical club formed by future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., philosopher and psychologist William James, and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce, in 1872. The group primarily discussed pragmatist and positivist philosophy.

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Examples of Metaphysical Club in the following topics:

  • Pragmatism

    • Its direction was determined by The Metaphysical Club members Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and Chauncey Wright, as well as John Dewey and George Herbert Mead.

  • The Song Dynasty

    • Citizens gathered to view and trade precious artworks, the populace intermingled at public festivals and private clubs, and cities had lively entertainment quarters.
    • However, unlike the Buddhists and Taoists, who saw metaphysics as a catalyst for spiritual development, religious enlightenment, and immortality, the Neo-Confucianists used metaphysics as a guide for developing a rationalist ethical philosophy.
    • Mahayana Buddhism influenced Fan Zhongyan and Wang Anshi through its concept of ethical universalism, while Buddhist metaphysics had a deep impact upon the pre-Neo-Confucian doctrine of Cheng Yi.

  • Supply of Blood and Nerves to Bone

    • Near the epiphysis, they anastomose with the metaphyseal and epiphyseal arteries.
    • Epiphyseal and metaphyseal arteries enter on both sides of the growth cartilage, with anastamoses between them being few or absent.
    • Young periosteum is more vascular, has more metaphyseal branches, and its vessels communicate more freely with those of the shaft than adult periosteum .

  • Venn Diagrams (optional)

    • Five percent of the students work part time and belong to a club.
    • Let C = student belongs to a club and PT = student works part time.
    • The probability that the student belongs to a club.
    • The probability that the student belongs to a club AND works part time.
    • The probability that the student belongs to a club OR works part time.

  • The Working Woman

    • Indignant that she and other women were denied admittance to a banquet honoring Charles Dickens in 1868 at the all-male New York Press Club simply because they were women, she resolved to organize a club for women only.
    • Croly proposed a conference in New York that brought together delegates from 61 women's clubs.
    • The constitution was adopted in 1890, and the General Federation of Women's Clubs was born.
    • The GFWC also counts international clubs among its members.
    • Although women's clubs were founded primarily as a means of self-education and development for women, the emphasis of most local clubs gradually changed to one of community service and improvement.

  • Basidiomycota: The Club Fungi

    • The basidiomycota are mushroom-producing fungi with developing, club-shaped fruiting bodies called basidia on the gills under its cap.
    • The fungi in the Phylum Basidiomycota are easily recognizable under a light microscope by their club-shaped fruiting bodies called basidia (singular, basidium), which are the swollen terminal cell of a hypha.
    • The club-shaped basidium carries spores called basidiospores.

  • Ferns and Other Seedless Vascular Plants

    • Ferns, club mosses, horsetails, and whisk ferns are seedless vascular plants that reproduce with spores and are found in moist environments.
    • Modern-day seedless tracheophytes include club mosses, horsetails, ferns, and whisk ferns.
    • The club mosses, or phylum Lycopodiophyta, are the earliest group of seedless vascular plants.
    • In club mosses, the sporophyte gives rise to sporophylls arranged in strobili, cone-like structures that give the class its name .
    • In the club mosses such as Lycopodium clavatum, sporangia are arranged in clusters called strobili.

  • Religious Symbols

    • There are many benefits to such a course of inquiry, but in general the comparative study of religion yields a deeper understanding of the fundamental philosophical concerns of religion, including ethics, metaphysics and the nature and form of salvation.

  • Environmental Protests

    • Organizations like The Sierra Club and Greenpeace, as well as the book "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson, contributed to the growth of the environmental movement during this time period.
    • The Sierra Club was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by the conservationist and preservationist John Muir, who became its first president.
    • During the 1800s, the Sierra Club worked to create national parks, such as Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks.
    • The Sierra Club's most publicized crusade of the 1960s was the effort to stop the Bureau of Reclamation from building two dams that would flood portions of the Grand Canyon.
    • President Theodore Roosevelt and nature preservationist John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, on Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park.

  • Introduction

    • Hull House also held concerts that were free to everyone, offered free lectures on current issues, and operated clubs for both children and adults.
    • Its facilities included a night school for adults, kindergarten classes, clubs for older children, a public kitchen, an art gallery, a coffeehouse, a gymnasium, a girls club, a swimming pool, a bathhouse, a book bindery, a music school, a drama group, a library, and labor-related divisions.