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(philosophy, usually capitalized, usually preceded by "the") A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.
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(philosophy) The Platonic form of the supreme idea in which all other ideas participate.
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(philosophy) Ultimate reality, as is unaffected by the beliefs or limitations of any finite being.
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(sociology) a term created by C. Wright Mills to describe sociological work that has a high focus on empirical methodology, particularly work that fixated with survey methods and their quantifiability.
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(philosophy) The view that perceptions do not have objects, so for example one "senses redly" rather than being aware of a red sense datum.
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(philosophy) The doctrine that actions have a direct cause, especially that people's actions are caused by their mental state at the time
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(philosophy) philosophical phenomenon described as the dislocation of the axis of the theoretical construction of a thinker and the axis of his lived experience; discrepancy between theory and experience
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(philosophy) The belief that the extension of a concept or term is determined by some aspect of the speaker's conception of its extension.
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(theology, philosophy) A type of argument for the existence of God arguing that since every thing and event that begins at a point in time has a cause, there must be an uncaused first cause.
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(philosophy) The study of the validity of reasoning and the criteria necessary to achieve knowledge.
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mixture of postmodern techniques with traditional styles
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Data derived from reliable measurement or observation.
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(philosophy, phenomenology) In the thought of Immanuel Kant and Edmund Husserl, the self of each person, understood as the locus of personality and capable of being known as an object by means of reflective awareness, in contrast with the transcendental ego which is always an experiencing subject.
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Information (to support or refute a theory) supported by scientific experimentation or statistical analysis, involving testable observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.
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Research that bases its findings on direct or indirect observation as its test of reality.
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(sciences) Based on data gathered in the real world.
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A pursuit of knowledge purely through experience, especially by means of observation and sometimes by experimentation.
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Obsolete form of empiric. [(historical) A member of a sect of ancient physicians who based their theories solely on experience.]
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Based on, characterized by, or pertaining to empirical study.
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Alternative form of empiricism [(medicine, now chiefly historical) Medicine as practised by an empiric, founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; folk medicine, quackery.]
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(physics) Relating to, or resulting from, experience or experiment; following from empirical methods or data.
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Archaic spelling of empiric. [(historical) A member of a sect of ancient physicians who based their theories solely on experience.]
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Alternative form of entelechy. [(Aristotelian metaphysics) The complete realisation and final form of some potential concept or function; the conditions under which a potential thing becomes actualized.]
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(philosophy) The theory that human beings are by nature (i.e. essentially) good and that evil is the product of society.
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(philosophy) The view that time resembles space and thus past and future events are in some sense coexistent.
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Based on experience; empirical.
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(philosophy) The theory that experience is the source of knowledge.
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(philosophy) An empirical or pragmatic approach which emphasizes the importance of experimentation
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(obsolete) Relying on experiment or experience.
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(philosophy) The principle that objects are equal if and only if their observed properties are the same, regardless of internal processes that lead to those properties.
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Of or pertaining to externalism.
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A form of evaluation that emphasizes the usage of facts, falsifiability, logic and reason.
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Information acquired by direct observation rather than by inference.
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(philosophy) The view that entities possess haecceity (individual essences or "thisness").
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Knowledge derived from empirical study and practical adoption of experience.
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(philosophy) The principle that, if two objects are indistinguishable from one another with respect to all of their properties, then they are identical.
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(philosophy, metaphysics, theology, of a deity) Existing within and throughout the mind and the world; dwelling within and throughout all things, all time, etc. Compare transcendent.
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(philosophical) Justified true belief
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(philosophy) The theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes.
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The science that is concerned with metempirics.
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The concepts and relations which are conceived as beyond, and yet related to, the knowledge gained by experience.
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(philosophy) A philosophical razor which states that what cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating.
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(ethics, philosophy) The ethical principle asserting that initiating physical force against persons or their justly acquired property, or threatening to do so, is illegitimate.
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François Laruelle's system of thought based on the concept that all systems of philosophy rely on a prior decision that is outside the system itself.
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(philosophy, especially Kantianism) Of or pertaining to the noumenon or the realm of things as they are in themselves.
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(philosophy, ethics) The perception of something as being one's own, or belonging to oneself.
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(philosophy) The doctrine that the meaning of a term consists of the operation(s) performed in defining it
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The transcendental change of perception when one can view the Earth, or any other planetary object, within the universal context.
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The philosophical view that all perception always takes place from a specific perspective.
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(philosophy) The metaphysical idea that the universe contains everything that is possible.
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(philosophy) The theory that souls exist prior to their association with human bodies.
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(philosophy) The argument, famously made by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), that a private language cannot exist.
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(philosophy) The Stoic principle that people have a choice in how they judge, and are affected by, externalities.
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A school of thought that believes that all actions can be subject to rational analysis
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A view that the fundamental method for problem solving is through reason and experience rather than faith, inspiration, revelation, intuition or authority.
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(epistemology) The doctrine that knowledge is based in feelings or intuition.
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(philosophy) The supposed innate ability of the human mind to realise the basic principles of ethics and morals
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(philosophy) The position that the truth value of a proposition can vary across time.
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(philosophy, metaphysics, Platonism, Christian theology, usually in the plural) Any one of the three transcendental properties of being: truth, beauty or goodness, which respectively are the ideals of science, art and religion and the principal subjects of the study of logic, aesthetics and ethics.
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(philosophy) A criticism of a philosophy from a religious (or transcendent) standpoint.
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