n
The quality of being abstract.
adj
Exhibiting aetonormativity; setting up one particular age group (typically adults) as a norm.
n
(sociology, philosophy, psychology) The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices.
adj
Having an antedependence
n
(philosophy) The quality or state of being known a priori
adj
(ethics) Of or pertaining to virtue or excellence.
adj
Based on general knowledge or theory rather than data.
n
Any theory attempting to explain the process by which individuals explain the causes of behaviour and events.
n
Self-education; self-directed learning.
n
(chiefly philosophy) The act or process by which something becomes.
n
(philosophy, rare) The essence of being a catamite.
n
The state of being a character.
n
The state or quality of being civilized.
n
A collector who strives to obtain a complete collection of some type of thing.
n
The belief that life begins at conception, and thus all abortion is murder.
n
(philosophy) Something that is concrete, rather than abstract.
n
(philosophy) The state in which the self is fundamentally connected to others, oneself, and the world, via dialogue.
n
(Aristotelian philosophy) Essence or nature as encapsulated in a mental construct.
adj
Based on relevant information.
adj
(comparable) Morally approvable; good.
adj
Pertaining to events, as directly experienced, as opposed to ideas about them.
adv
From the nature of things; from the nature of the case; from nature; applied to arguments based on observation or experiment, as opposed to pure reason.
n
Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)
adj
Represented in an existential manner
n
The process of making something existential; of causing something to exist.
n
Writing, facts, principles, etc. that are widely known.
n
(countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
n
(linguistics) A thematic relation where something undergoes a situation or sensation lacking a semantic agent.
n
A person who experiences something.
adj
Of, related to, encountered in, or derived from experience.
n
(obsolete) Experience, practical familiarity with something.
n
A person who seeks or enjoys new experiences
n
A person who believes that human beings have free will.
n
Alternative form of Hitchens' razor [A philosophical razor stating that what can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.]
n
(philosophy) The idea that what ought to be the case cannot be deduced from what is already the case.
n
(sociology) A tendency for people to act in a highly individual way, without regard to society.
adj
Extremely modern, bordering on the futuristic.
adj
(philosophy, of a mental act) Taking place entirely within the mind of the subject and having no effect outside of it. Compare emanant, transeunt.
n
The tendency for a person to act without reference to others, particularly in matters of style, fashion or mode of thought.
n
The mechanism of spiritual or intuitive insight or connectedness.
adj
Derived from experience; acquired by learning.
n
(slang, derogatory) The unethical commercialization of science, as for example where results are deliberately misinterpreted in exchange for large grants from a corporation.
n
The quality of being metaphysical.
n
(historical) In Aristotelian philosophy, the smallest part into which a homogeneous natural substance (such as bone or wood) could be divided while retaining its essential character.
n
One possessing this characteristic.
n
The quality or state of being nominal.
n
(sociology) A process whereby artificial and unwanted norms of behaviour and models of behaviour are made to seem natural and wanted, through propaganda, influence, imitation and conformity.
n
(philosophy) A statement expressing a value judgment answering the question of what ought to be, as opposed to what there is.
n
The advocacy of the primacy or desirability of social norms
n
The quality of being occidental.
adj
Pertaining to everything within a domain.
adj
Obsolete form of omnific. [Capable of making or doing anything; all-creating.]
adj
(philosophy) producing the optimum outcome
n
a person who expects a favourable outcome
n
(philosophy) The world external to the human mind.
adj
(dated) experimental or tentative
n
(philosophy) The criteria for the persistence of persons over time (i.e what makes one the same person as one was yesterday, or ten years ago), and the criteria for the individuation of persons from others.
adj
Rational; analytic or critically-minded; thoughtful.
n
The fact or state of being post-truth; a time period or situation in which facts have become less important than emotional persuasion.
n
(philosophy) according to the philosophy of Justus Buchler, the process of the development of a person's experience by the interaction of behaviour and the environment.
n
(philosophy) A property that applies to all members of a species and only to them, serving to distinguish the species from other species within the same genus, yet is not part of the true definition or the essence of the species.
adj
(philosophy) Of a property: not phenomenal at the individual level, but collectively able to constitute phenomenal properties.
n
(countable) A false (typically invented) archaism.
n
Objective consideration.
adj
Expressed or represented as being accurate, practicable, or not idealistic.
n
The state of being actual or real.
adj
Related to a rite or repeated set of actions.
adj
Of or relating to habitual behavior.
v
Alternative form of root cause [(transitive) The action of identifying the cause of a chain of events which leads to an outcome or effect of interest. To root cause something's root cause does not necessarily imply the use of root cause analysis (RCA).]
n
(philosophy) An act of self-refuting.
n
Enlightenment or education.
n
(philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
adj
Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, not upon observation or reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.
n
(psychoanalysis) The part of the mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards that have been learnt.
n
The quality or state of being technical.
n
The quality of being transracial.
adj
of or relating to utility
n
(psychology, colloquial) The act of experiencing an event by proxy through an empathic link with the person who is experiencing the event firsthand.
adj
Experienced or gained by taking in another person’s experience, rather than through first-hand experience, such as through watching or reading.
n
(theology) A form of omnipresence in which an entity is present wherever it wishes to be.
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