Concept cluster: Philosophy > Countering philosophies
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(philosophy, metaphysics, religion) A person who opposes agnosticism.
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(philosophy) One who opposes the Hegelian philosophy.
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A sentiment of hostility towards, or mistrust of, intellectuals and intellectual pursuits.
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Denying the supernatural.
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One who rejects adaptationism.
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Opposition to anthropomorphism.
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(film) Defying cinematic conventions.
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(art) One who opposes or rejects what is classical.
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One who opposes conceptualism.
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Opposition to descriptivism.
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(philosophy) Opposition to determinism.
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One who opposes discipline.
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An academic discipline that is the opposite of another, or that goes against the conventions of disciplines generally.
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Rejection of dualism.
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One who rejects dualism.
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Rejecting dualism.
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Going against what is empirically true.
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(philosophy) One who opposes empiricism.
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(philosophy) Opposition to essentialism.
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(philosophy) Opposing essentialism.
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One who opposes formalism.
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(epistemology) Opposing foundationalism.
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(epistemology) One who rejects foundationalism.
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Of or relating to antifrustrationism or its adherents.
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One who subscribes to antihistoricism.
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Opposing the use of hypotheses.
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(theology) One who does not believe that mankind has fallen from a better state.
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Opposition to a literal interpretation of something.
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antimaterialistic
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Opposition to economical materialism or consumerism.
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A person who subscribes to antimaterialism.
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(philosophy) A belief that opposes mechanism.
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(philosophy) One who rejects mechanism.
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(philosophy) Rejecting or opposing mechanism.
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(philosophy) An antisupersensualist; an antisupernaturalist.
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An approach to study or analysis that eschews the usual methodology, or methodologies in general.
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(philosophy, sociology) One who opposes or rejects naturalism.
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(philosophy) Opposition to nihilism.
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(philosophy) One who opposes nihilism.
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(philosophy) Opposing nihilism.
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(philosophy) A supporter of the philosophy of antinominalism.
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(dramaturgy) A play (dramatical production) that deliberately avoids the typical conventions of the play, such as a coherent plot and resolution.
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A region of negative departure from a norm.
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One who practices antipodism; one who juggles using his or her feet lying down.
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(social sciences) An advocate of antipositivism.
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(philosophy) A viewpoint that rejects pragmatism.
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(philosophy) One who rejects pragmatism.
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A form of psychoanalysis based on existentialist and sociological concepts
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Having a damaging psychological effect opposite to that of psychotherapy.
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(philosophy) The philosophical position that opposes rationalism.
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(philosophy) One who rejects philosophical rationalism.
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(philosophy) Opposing rationalism.
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(philosophy) Opposing reductionism; exhibiting or relating to antireductionism.
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(philosophy) Opposing representationalism.
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(philosophy) One who opposes representationalism.
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Opposing or avoiding the use of rhetoric.
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Opposed to ritualism.
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(sociology) Of or relating to antistructure.
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(philosophy) Opposing teleology.
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(philosophy) A position that opposes transcendentalism.
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(theology) One who rejects the doctrine (or dogma) of the Trinity, the Trinitarian doctrine.
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(theology) One who opposes universalism (the theological belief that all souls can attain salvation).
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heretical
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A historiographical approach in the history of science, maintaining that there is an intrinsic intellectual conflict between religion and science and that it inevitably leads to hostility.
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(art) A trend in the late sixteenth century that rejected some of the distortions of Mannerism, returning to a more classicist emphasis on clarity.
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(historical, derogatory) A supporter of Charles Babbage's Reflections on the Decline of Science and some of its Causes (1830), a paper criticizing the failure of government to support scientific research.
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A subscriber to declinism.
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Relating to denial in a controversial debate.
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A do-it-yourself approach to teaching and learning practices, avoiding mainstream tools and organisations.
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holding the view that the Pope is not infallible
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An advocate of exclusivism.
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An orthodox (politically correct) thought.
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(of ideas or views) Contrary to mainstream or accepted opinion.
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One who opposes the worship of images or idols.
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A political philosophy embracing the virtues of immediate social interactions with people as a means of countering the antisocial consequences of consumerist capitalism.
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A form of atheism that promotes active opposition to religion, rather than toleration.
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The philosophy that opposes essentialism.
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A state of opposition to human progress or enlightenment.
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A policy or approach based on trying to prevent something from happening.
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Neutrality towards all religions.

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