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(philosophy) The theory that humanity's morality will never advance beyond its present state.
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(philosophy, often preceded by the) The opposition between the human search for meaning in life and the inability to find any; the state or condition in which man exists in an irrational universe and his life has no meaning outside of his existence.
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(uncountable, philosophy) A philosophy which holds that the universe is chaotic and irrational and that any attempt to impose order will ultimately fail.
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The belief that outward appearance often contrasts with substance or essence (after Thomas Aquinas).
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The view that absolute truth or ultimate certainty is unattainable, especially regarding knowledge not based on experience or perceivable phenomena.
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An attitude that tends to ignore history as being unimportant and having no relevance to modern life or decision making.
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An attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or at least necessary; associated with the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.
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(philosophy) Doctrine which advocates ignoring moral issues and norms.
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One who practises or who advocates amoralism.
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(philosophy) The axiological view that frustrated preferences create a negative moral 'debit' which can be canceled out through their satisfaction. Thus, satisfying a desire that already exists is good, but creating a new satisfied desire is not.
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(philosophy) Any position involving denial of the objective reality of certain entities, or denial that certain general statements are objectively either true or false.
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Of or pertaining to antiscience
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(rare) A nonspecific belief in anything, or that anything goes.
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Of, or pertaining to apatheism.
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(humorous) A person who does not believe in unicorns.
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(philosophy) The existentialist concept of denying one's total freedom of will.
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(philosophy, rare) A philosophy of determinables
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Characteristic of determinism.
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(philosophy) Supporting eliminativism, the materialist position which holds that folk psychology presents a false view of the mind
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The philosophical theory that life has no intrinsic meaning or value.
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The doctrine that knowledge is never certain, but always hypothetical and susceptible to correction.
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(philosophy) Of, pertaining to or supporting hard determinism, the belief that free will and determinism are incompatible ideas.
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(historical, sciences) The Aristotelian principle that there are no vacuums in nature.
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The philosophical position that the question of the existence of God is meaningless, because the term "God" has no coherent and unambiguous definition. It may also be described as the theological position that other theological positions assume too much about the concept of God.
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A belief in unrealizable or impractical policies.
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(philosophy) Self-identity defined through the negation of difference, non-difference.
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(philosophy, religion) Expressing or relating to indifferentism.
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Someone who believes in the philosophy of individualism; a solipsist.
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Characteristic of inevitabilism.
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Having Marxist influences, but not truly Marxist.
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(derogatory) Amorality, the metaphysical belief that morality does not exist, that no action, thought or behavior is morally right or morally wrong.
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(philosophy) The position that certain acts are objectively right or wrong, independent of human opinion.
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(ethics) A form of utilitarianism that says we should minimize the total amount of aggregate suffering, or that we should minimize suffering and then, secondarily, maximize the total amount of happiness.
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(philosophy) The doctrine that nothing is actually knowable.
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(countable, law) A nihil dicit.
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One who subscribes to nihilism.
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(philosophy) The action of consciousness, which is the origin of negation in facticity.
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(philosophy) That which nihilates.
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(usually uncountable) The view that all endeavours are devoid of objective meaning.
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(philosophy) The idea that there is no Absolute; especially the Jain doctrine of anekantavada.
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(philosophy) The belief in the existence of entities and events within a domain that can only be defined in terms of what it is not.
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The philosophy that rejects materialism.
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One who subscribes to the philosophy of nonnaturalism.
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(philosophy) Any belief system that rejects objectivism.
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(philosophy) A philosophical approach denying that something is representational.
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(derogatory) Any form of reductionism seen as explaining away phenomena.
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One who denies that the soul exists in physical space.
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Alternative letter-case form of objectivism (“philosophy based around Ayn Rand’s writings”) [The state of being objective; objectivity.]
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The doctrine that this world is the worst of all possible worlds.
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No longer bound by racial divisions.
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The belief that all events that occur have already been determined.
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Alternative form of principlism [A system of ethics based on the four moral principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice.]
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(religion, philosophy) The belief that man is fated to do what is almost certainly correct.
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(philosophy) One who rejects qualia.
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A philosophy of resigning oneself to whatever may happen; defeatism.
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(humorous) The belief that some inanimate objects exhibit malice toward humans.
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(philosophy, theology, uncountable) The idea that what is true about the universe is the exact opposite of what a person or group of people believes.
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A methodology that starts from a neutral standpoint and aims to acquire certainty though scientific or logical observation.
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One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist.
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(uncountable) A belief in the importance of truth and objective facts.
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The theory that belief is voluntary
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Any of various artistic movements in which the artist refused to write works with any message or higher meaning.
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