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A comment on The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician (2001).

Re:The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician (2001) by wnmurphy on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:02PM (#17611872)
What's a metaphysician? A doctor who doctors doctors?
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Re:The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician (2001) by wje on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:14PM (#17611963)
A person who studies metaphysics.

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy dealing with questions like 'What is there?'.

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Re:The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician (2001) by jackcarter on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:22PM (#17612015)
Odd, I'd have expected the term to be "metaphysicist."
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Re:The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician (2001) by newsbinator on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @11:19PM (#17614838)
You're thinking of a person who studies physicists.
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Re:The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician (2001) by ebullientocelot on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:43PM (#17612177)
A term that is unfortunately abused, at least where I live, by fortune telling shops and other such things.
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Re:The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician (2001) by Koshkin on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @07:18PM (#17613804)
Incidentally, 'doctor' is Latin for 'teacher'.
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Re:The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician (2001) by schoen on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @11:27PM (#17614864)
We could also sort of say that "physician" is Greek for "naturalist".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%86%CF%85%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%B...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/naturalis#Etymology

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