Metaphysics
<p><i><b>Metaphysics</b></i> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Greek</a>: τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a>: <i>Metaphysica</i><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics%28Aristotle%29#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup>) is one of the principal works of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a> and the first major work of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics" title="Metaphysics">branch of philosophy</a> with the same name. The principal subject is "being qua being," or being insofar as it is being. It examines what can be asserted about anything that exists just because of its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existence" title="Existence">existence</a> and not because of any special qualities it has. Also covered are different kinds of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality" title="Causality">causation</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantial_form" title="Substantial form">form</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter%28philosophy%29" title="Matter (philosophy)">matter</a>, the existence of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_object" title="Mathematical object">mathematical objects</a>, and a prime-mover <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>.</p>