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An advocate of absurdism, in particular a writer of absurd topics.
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(theology) The belief that the primary value and significance of what is earthly and tangible is the way it points to the divine.
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(theology) The belief that absolute truth must explain every legitimate alternative.
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More broadly, a prohibition against all forms of visual artwork and photography.
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(linguistics) An advocate of anomalism
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Alternative spelling of antirealism [(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 relating to a genre of detective fiction characterised by postmodernism and ambiguity.
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(philosophy) Opposed to realism
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(chiefly politics) pragmatism, realism
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(philosophy) One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas.
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Of, pertaining to, or espousing authenticism, a belief in the superiority of the authentic over the inauthentic.
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the novel, experimental approach of the avant-garde
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A system of beliefs; a set of beliefs with interrelations.
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A person with a naturalistic worldview with no mystical or supernatural elements.
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(philosophy) One who accepts cerebralism.
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Relating to contractarianism
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Relating to the theories of contractualism
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A justification of the fundamental goodness of the universe, especially in regard to the existence of evil and suffering in the world; a work or discourse justifying the ways of the universe.
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Relating to the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant
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(art) Pertaining to Dataism.
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(philosophy, medicine) Adhering only to principles which are true a priori, rather than truths based on evidence or deduction.
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One who derives philosophical or religious principles from a priori assertion or revelation rather than evidence or experience.
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One who studies ecosophy.
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(art) One who works in the artistic style of elementarism.
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(metaphysics) A proponent of ersatzism, the doctrine that possible worlds are merely abstract and do not have the same reality as the present world
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Of or pertaining to essentialism.
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Of or pertaining to essentialism.
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A person who adheres to the philosophy of existentialism.
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Of or relating to factualism.
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Of, pertaining to, or supporting fictionalism
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Of or relating to fixism
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A believer in fortuitism.
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Of or pertaining to foundherentism.
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(philosophy) Concerning rules or principles as opposed to acts.
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(philosophy) One who subscribes to haecceitism.
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(philosophy, historical) Synonym of humanist (“a person who believes in the philosophy of humanism”)
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A philosopher who deals chiefly with matter; one who adopts or teaches hylism.
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(art) An art movement distinguished from modernism and postmodernism chiefly by its extreme and antithetical (inverted) approach.
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(philosophy) One who subscribes to the idea of hyperreality.
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Pertaining to those who hate images, especially religious icons.
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(philosophy) One who adheres to idealism.
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Of or pertaining to an idealist or to idealism.
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Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
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Of or relating to immanentism.
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One who believes in incorporealism.
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One who holds to inspiration, especially divine inspiration.
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An adherent of one of the forms of intellectualism.
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(philosophy) A person who subscribes to philosophical views associated with Immanuel Kant.
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(art) One who works in the style of literalism.
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An advocate of macrorealism
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An individual involved in the Metabolism architectural movement.
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Alternative form of naïve realist [Of or pertaining to naïve realism.]
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(art) An artist working in the style of naivism.
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The doctrine that denies a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in religious texts and in spiritual influences.
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(philosophy) A person who believes in or advocates the tenets of philosophical or methodological naturalism.
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Alternative spelling of neoplasticism [(art) A style of abstract painting, developed by Piet Mondrian, that used only vertical and horizontal lines with the spaces filled in black, white, grey, and primary colours]
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The neoconcrete approach to art.
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An artistic movement in the late 20th and early 21st century that was more optimistic in tone than postmodernism.
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A philosophical position proposing that the hard problem of consciousness cannot be resolved by humans.
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Of or relating to obscurantism.
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(philosophy, religion) The doctrine of allness, completeness, and totality.
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Of or related to originalism.
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One who believes the doctrine of panexperientialism.
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(philosophy) The Hegelian doctrine that the universe is the act or realization of Logos, and therefore logic and ontology are the same study.
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(philosophy) principle of alternate possibilities
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Of or pertaining to particularism.
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Synonym of philosophia perennis
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(education) A normative educational philosophy according to which one should teach the things that are of everlasting relevance to all people everywhere, and that the emphasis should be on principles, not facts.
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(philosophy, now rare) Someone who thinks that religious or moral perfection can be attained in this life.
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One who subscribes to the philosophy of phenomenalism.
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Abbreviation of philosophy. [(uncountable, originally) The love of wisdom.]
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(colloquial) Clipping of philosopher. [(originally) A lover of wisdom.]
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A pretender to philosophy; a petty or charlatan philosopher.
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(derogatory) An incompetent philosopher; a philosophaster.
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A scholar or expert engaged in or contributing to philosophical inquiry.
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(obsolete) An alchemist.
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The role or status of a philosopher.
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(philosophy) Any imaginary being that lacks consciousness but is used to illuminate various philosophical concepts.
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The killing of a philosopher.
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(rare) Synonym of philosopher
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A philosopher, a person who writes or reasons in philosophy.
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(rare) A minor or insignificant philosopher; someone who claims philosophical expertise that they do not possess.
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Obsolete form of philosopher. [(originally) A lover of wisdom.]
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(politics, neologism) Post-truth; the normalization of misinformation, lies, and "alternative facts" in society.
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(philosophy) One who subscribes to posthumanism.
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Any of various artistic movements that seek to move beyond the restrictions of minimalism
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One who works in the style of postminimalism.
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(philosophy) Of, pertaining to, or advocating post-structuralism
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One who belongs to the philosophic school of pragmatism; one who holds that the meaning of beliefs are the actions they entail, and that the truth of those beliefs consist in the actions they entail successfully leading a believer to their goals.
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(theology) Of or pertaining to presuppositionalism.
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(philosophy) The argument that an omnipotent and truly benevolent deity would not permit evil.
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An artist employing an early form of minimalism.
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One who professes to have knowledge or education which they, in fact, lack.
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Of or relating to purposivism.
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Of or relating to rationalism.
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(music) A minimalist school of music with similar aims.
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Belonging to the reductivism movement in art or music.
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The view that cultural phenomena (literature, art, etc.) simply mirror the ideology of the dominant economic patterns of society.
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(rare) An inferior scientist.
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A practitioner of sciosophy.
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One who holds to the philosophy of sensism.
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Belief in the simulation hypothesis.
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One who believes in the simulation hypothesis.
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A solver of problems or puzzles
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(uncountable, historical) The school of the sophists in antiquity; their beliefs and method of teaching philosophy and rhetoric.
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A school of philosophy popularized during the Roman Empire that emphasized reason as a means of understanding the natural state of things, or logos, and as a means of freeing oneself from emotional distress.
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(philosophy) One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.
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One who subscribes to the philosophy of superorganicism.
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The use of a purpose or design rather than the laws of nature to explain an occurrence.
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One who studies or follows theophilosophy.
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An intellectual, such as a philosopher or theologian.
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(rare, countable) A philosophy, ideology or belief system that is total in its scope, one that covers everything.
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(art) An Italian form of neo-expressionism
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One who believes in transcendentalism.
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(poetry) A Spanish poetic movement opposed to modernism.
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(politics, philosophy) Any particular strong form of realism.
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An unidealistic attitude or worldview.
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(philosophy) a movement advocating personal reason and experience and over faith and dogma
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(philosophy) The idea that words describing the properties of God mean the same thing as when they apply to people or things.
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A proponent of unrealism.
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One who subscribes to verism.
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(philosophy) A proponent of willusionism.
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A member of the artistic movement that grew out of Zero-61, which rejected past influences in an attempt to produce fresh new works.
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