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(logic) Of or pertaining to the various modalities of truth, such as the possibility or impossibility of something being true.
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(grammar) Of, or relating to the aorist aspect.
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The science of first principles.
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(philosophy) In logical atomism, a fundamental fact that cannot be further broken down.
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(dated) The doctrine of atoms.
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Of or relating to value theory, the philosophical field of axiology.
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Interpretation in terms of axiology.
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(ethics) The branch of ethics that studies the implications of biological and biomedical advances.
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Language or other descriptive system which restricts that which can be described to that which can be.
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Relating to compatibilism
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Of or pertaining to conceptualism.
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Of or relating to connectivism.
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(philosophy) Relating to content (as apposed to context).
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(semantics) One who believes in a defaultist interpretation of scalar implicature, that is, that scalar implicatures arise from a default association with a word, rather than arising from contextual inference.
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The field of philosophical logic that is concerned with obligation, permission, and related concepts.
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(ethics, philosophy) Of or relating to deontology.
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(philosophy) Discursive thought on mathematical or scientific subjects.
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(philosophy) An approach to thought that draws upon multiple theories to gain complementary insights into phenomena
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Of or relating to knowledge or cognition; cognitive.
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(epistemology, countable) A circle of (foundational) epistemic arguments where the reliability of a device used within this circle is also proven within the circle.
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A crisis in which the normal competition between epistemic regimes or components thereof crescendoes to the extent that peoples, nations, or other human groups either lose their sense that they share perceptions of common reality or pretend to lose it for purposes of tactical or strategic feint in a power struggle.
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Dynamic epistemic logic, a logical framework dealing with knowledge and information change.
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(linguistics) The property of being epistemic.
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Of or pertaining to epistemology or theory of knowledge, as a field of study.
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A recurrent topic of epistemological discussion and debate.
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(of reasoning) That asserts that order must have a planned cause
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(philosophy) The study of interconnected ideas.
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The use of a holistic approach; holism.
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(philosophy) Something that is both a part and a whole.
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(philosophy) Relating to a horizon.
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The study of matter or raw impressions of an intentional act; the abstraction from the form.
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(uncountable) The study of the origin and nature of ideas.
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The practice of incorporating disparate or unreconciled elements in a single, inclusive system or theory.
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Commitment to the truth of one or another form of informational ontology or informational metaphysics .
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Relating to interpretivism
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Alternative form of intraphilosophical [Within the discipline of philosophy.]
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Within the discipline of philosophy.
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(philosophy) epistemology; theory of knowledge
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Of, or pertaining to, meditation.
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(logic) The discipline which deals with the relationship of parts with their respective wholes.
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Alternative spelling of metaepistemology [(philosophy) The study of the nature, methods, goals and underlying assumptions of epistemology]
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Alternative spelling of metaethics [(ethics) The descriptive study of philosophical ethical systems, especially with regard to their key concepts, techniques of reasoning and analysis, and linguistic conventions.]
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One who uses meta-induction.
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(philosophy) The study of the nature, methods, goals and underlying assumptions of epistemology
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(ethics) The descriptive study of philosophical ethical systems, especially with regard to their key concepts, techniques of reasoning and analysis, and linguistic conventions.
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(philosophy) Knowledge about knowledge itself (for example, epistemologic awareness).
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(philosophy) The metatheory of logic; the study of properties of logical systems.
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The part of philosophy that studies the nature of metaphysics.
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The ontology of ontology.
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Being an adherent of the philosophy of metaphysics.
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A metaphysical approach to a subject.
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(philosophy, rare) A metaphysician.
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Obsolete form of metaphysical. [Of or pertaining to metaphysics.]
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Obsolete form of metaphysics. [(philosophy, uncountable) The branch of philosophy which studies fundamental principles intended to describe or explain all that is, and which are not themselves explained by anything more fundamental; the study of first principles; the study of being insofar as it is being (Latin: ens in quantum ens).]
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(philosophy, uncountable) The branch of philosophy which studies fundamental principles intended to describe or explain all that is, and which are not themselves explained by anything more fundamental; the study of first principles; the study of being insofar as it is being (Latin: ens in quantum ens).
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Examination of the theory or theories relating to a certain field of study or endeavour.
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(philosophy) middle ground
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Of or relating to metempirics.
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(philosophy) The relation between a particular and a Platonic form.
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(philosophy) The doctrine or theory of monads.
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The inclusion and acceptance of divergent lines of reasoning within a single text, discussion, or approach to a question.
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(philosophy) The philosophical strategy that asserts the validity of multiple differing interpretations.
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(philosophy) The problem in epistemology that all three ways of providing a proof — circular argument, regressive argument, and axiomatic argument — may be regarded as unsatisfactory.
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Of or relating to philosophical or methodological naturalism.
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(obsolete) Of or relating to the understanding.
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(philosophy) Of or relating to nominalism.
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(philosophy, rare) system defining laws or rules
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Of or relating to the philosophy of noncognitivism.
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The systematic study and organization of everything dealing with knowing and knowledge.
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Of or relating to ontology.
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Of or relating to ontology.
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(uncountable, philosophy) The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being.
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(philosophy, computer science) the process of determining correspondences between concepts in ontologies
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Of or pertaining to operationalism.
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A set of principles that are used in science or philosophy.
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Synonym of phenomenalist
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Obsolete form of philosophy. [(uncountable, originally) The love of wisdom.]
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(philosophy, uncountable) The area of philosophy which studies the nature and functions of the mind, thought, and consciousness, with attention to such topics as perception, reasoning, belief, memory, will, and identity.
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(philosophy, countable) A particular theory within the former.
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The tendency of the mind toward, or its preoccupation with, physical phenomena; materialism in philosophy and religion.
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Both political and epistemic.
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(archaic) The quality of being polypragmatic.
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(uncountable, mathematics, historical, rare) In the works of English philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832): the study of quantity; mathematics.
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Of or relating to a methodology of inquiry appropriate for urgent, disputed cases where some information is lacking.
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Philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; said of literature.
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Relating to pragmatism; pragmatic.
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(philosophy) Of or pertaining to the theory of properties.
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Of, relating to, or being disposed to solipsism.
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The statement or discussion of the first principles of any science or art.
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Of or pertaining to subjectivism.
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(philosophy) The building of ontological categories of a higher level on top of categories of a lower level.
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(philosophy) The integration of ontological categories of a lower level with that of a higher level.
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The principles of synthesis; a synthetic system.
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Of, relating to, or using tautology.
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Scientific management; a theory of management of the early 20th century that analyzed workflows in order to improve efficiency, originally developed by Frederick Winslow Taylor.
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The study of robotic telepresence and its influence on the nature of belief, knowledge, and experience.
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A branch of critical theory that focuses on human–object interactions in literature and culture, borrowing from Heidegger's distinction between objects and things, which posits that an object becomes a thing when it can no longer serve its common function.
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(psychology, sociology) Based on value derived from transactions rather than on morals, ethics, or principles; pragmatic or amoral rather than moral.
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Of or relating to utilitarianism.
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(psychoanalysis, specifically) A method that uses analogy to draw on insights from both objective natural science on the one hand, and subjective psychology and social science on the other.
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