"antimetaphysics" meaning in English

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          "text": "Antimetaphysics is basically a Machian heritage.",
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          "text": "Almost nothing is more striking than the antimetaphysics imputed to Wittgenstein by those interpreters who, indeed, see him as so clearly antimetaphysical.",
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          "text": "At logical positivism's heart is antimetaphysics, or, to put it positively, a spirit of enlightenment and anti-metaphysical factual research",
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