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Alternative spelling of pataphysics [An absurdist philosophy or pseudoscience studying things "beyond" metaphysics.]
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(philosophy) Creation by something else than the self.
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Of or pertaining to anyons
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(psychology) A theory that association (of experiences etc) is the basis of consciousness and mental activity
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(countable) Something cerebral.
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(philosophy) A science of the ego, in Husserlian philosophy.
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(philosophy) A philosophy of energetics.
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Relating to epiphenomenalism
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Relating to epistemology.
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(metaphysics) Pertaining to or composed of events.
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(philosophy) The definition of mental states in terms of their causes and effects
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Alternative form of gnoseology [(uncommon) The philosophical study of knowledge.]
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phenomenology of the other
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(philosophy) the consciousness of a dead person
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Of or pertaining to internalism.
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(metaphysics) One given to the introspective method of examining the phenomena of the soul.
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Of or relating to introspectionism.
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Of or pertaining to Julian Jaynes (1920–1997), American psychologist who argued that ancient peoples were not conscious.
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The hypothesis that different mental functions are localized to specific parts of the brain.
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Of or concerning philosophical materialism.
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Of or pertaining to metaphilosophy.
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Of or pertaining to metaphysics.
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Obsolete form of metaphysic. [(philosophy, uncountable, archaic) The field of study of metaphysics.]
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Obsolete form of metaphysician. [(philosophy) A philosopher who specializes in the scholarly study of metaphysics.]
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(philosophy) The study of how human experience forms, filters perception and shapes identity.
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(philosophy) The belief that the physical world is independent of the mind, and that some ultimates have experiential properties that are fundamentally necessary in the explanation of consciousness.
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(philosophy) Describing the physical action of the mind on the body, especially the mode in which a thought can cause an action
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The belief that some system, such as the brain or the ability to process language, operates as a group of interconnected but separate modules.
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(psychology) The acquisition of new knowledge from observation and experience, and from inferring relationships between known things.
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(sciences, philosophy) Relating to a law.
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The science of the laws of the mind; rational psychology.
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(rare) Relating to the underlying laws of a subject
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The sphere of human reason, thought, and consciousness, seen as a theoretical evolutionary stage.
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The philosophical approach that derives knowledge from observations.
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Pertaining to being generally, as opposed to some theory of it (which would be ontology).
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Relating to ontoepistemology.
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One who studies paraphysics.
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Relating to personalism.
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(rare) An analysis produced with this methodology.
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(sciences) Using the method of phenomenology, by which the observer examines the data without trying to provide an explanation of them.
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(philosophy) The study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view.
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(obsolete) A supposed "thought force" in vitalism.
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(archaic, uncountable) Natural philosophy; physics.
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Obsolete form of phenomenology. [(philosophy) The study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view.]
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Alternative form of postblackness [The quality of being postblack.]
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Apparently, but not actually, pathological; resembling the effect of a disease though not actually caused by one
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(philosophy) Alternative form of psycho-functionalist [(philosophy) One who believes in psycho-functionalism.]
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A field of study which combines psychological and philosophical concepts or understandings
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(archaic) The theory of the conditions of the phenomena of mind.
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All replication crises, in all scientific fields or specialties, viewed collectively as a unitary, single epistemic crisis.
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A viewpoint or theory that places sentient beings at the center of something, giving preference to sentient beings above all other considerations.
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(religion) A process by which heritable traits are given or planned by a higher power, as distinguished from natural selection.
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The metaphysical doctrine of the connection of things by causation.
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The philosophical system introduced by Herbert Spencer, conceived as a fusion of the different sciences into a whole.
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(education) A teaching style focused on transmitting facts without regard to the individual student.
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