Dematerialization in Metaphysics

 

There exists a little-known idea of a way of thinking about things. I say little known because I did a media search term query for dematerialization and there wasn't a whole lot on what I was looking for.

Dematerialization's cousin exists in art, where the object in the work becomes secondary to other things. In general, the same thing happens in metaphysics - the knower goes beyond the thing known...

and starts to wonder and examine things within the object of thought, the thing known. So, since there is a lack of a metaphysical definition of dematerialization, I will provide one here:


Dematerialization in a metaphysical context is where the object known is no longer material, or that intellectual process of examining the thing known to the extent that the object is no longer the primary focus, but rather one or more aspects of the object known is being examined. For example, when the knower stops imagining a Pegasus as the intellectual object, and proceeds somewhere in the organization of that object and wonders the internal bone structure needed to support the body in flight.

 

Happy thinking! Photo is Bellerophon slaying the Chimera on a Pegasus, Public Domain.




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