adj
Of or pertaining to Acmeism, a transient poetic school in Russia in the early 1900s.
adj
Relating to acosmism or to acosmists
n
(anthropology) A believer in animatism.
n
A belief that an immaterial force animates the universe.
adj
Synonym of antiphilosophical
n
(Christianity, philosophy, theology) A process of arriving at knowledge by statements of denial; particularly, developing a concept of God through negative assertions about his nature.
n
(theology) A teleological argument.
n
(philosophy) The tenets of the Averroists, having to do with the doctrine of monopsychism.
adj
Of or pertaining to Jeremy Bentham or Benthamism.
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The aesthetic philosophy of the Ancient Greek poet Callimachus, favoring refined works dealing with small-scale topics over large and prominent ones.
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One who believes that the most important geological phenomena were produced by cataclysms.
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The unpredictable swerve of atoms, introduced as a concept by Lucretius to defend the atomistic doctrine of Epicurus.
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The literary philosophy developed by the American writer H P Lovecraft, stating that there is no recognizable divine presence, such as God, in the universe, and that humans are particularly insignificant in the larger scheme of intergalactic existence.
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(historical) A philosophical and cultural movement in Russia in the early 20th century, combining elements of religion and ethics with a history of the origin, evolution and future of the cosmos and humankind.
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Of or relating to creation.
adj
Of, or pertaining to cubism.
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Of, or related to developmentalism.
n
The work or works of classical historians describing the opinions of Ancient Greek philosophers and scientists.
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Of or relating to dualism.
n
A proponent of earthism.
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(theology) According to divine economy.
adj
Of or relating to a certain school of Ancient Greek philosophers who taught that the only certain science is that which owes nothing to the senses, and all to the reason.
adj
Relating to elementarism
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(theology) The idea that everything emanates from something else, and that the original and most perfect things emanated directly from God.
adj
Relating to emanationism.
adj
Of or relating to emergentism.
adj
(philosophy) Of or pertaining to entelechy.
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a follower of Epicurus and Epicureanism
n
A system of philosophy, chiefly ethics, based upon the teachings of Epicurus (c. 340–c. 270 BC), that advocated retreat from public life to preserve one's long-term happiness and ataraxia.
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(historical) An ancient Greek philosopher, founder of the movement known as Epicureanism.
adj
Relating to epiphenomenalism.
adj
Of or relating to eschatologism.
adj
Relating to ethics and religion.
n
One who studies ethnophilosophy.
adj
Alternative spelling of eudaemonistic [Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.]
adj
Of or pertaining to eventology.
adj
Of or relating to foundationalism.
n
One who studies geosophy.
adj
Of, or relating to, intellectual or spiritual knowledge
adj
(philosophy) Of or pertaining to haecceity.
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Hermetic philosophy or practice.
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(Hegelianism) the notion of historical progress in the evolution of the human mind
n
(derogatory) An inferior historian.
adj
Relating to historiosophy.
n
A believer in, or practitioner of, holism; one who believes that a topic of study cannot be fully understood by studying the parts, or who studies by considering the whole.
adj
Alternative form of idealistic [Of or pertaining to an idealist or to idealism.]
adj
Of or pertaining to an ideology.
adj
Of or relating to ignostics.
adj
Relating to or characteristic of integralism.
adj
(chiefly theology) introductory
n
(philosophy) In Ancient Greek philosophy, the rational principle that governs the cosmos.
adj
(philosophy) Of or relating to J. M. E. McTaggart (1866–1925), idealist metaphysician.
n
One who believes in metempsychosis.
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Of or relating to modalism.
n
One who accepts the hypothesis of multiregionalism.
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The existence of multiple forms of theism, as in a society.
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(UK, Cambridge University slang) A natural scientist.
n
(obsolete, except as merged with later senses) A natural philosopher; a scientist.
n
An artist working in the style of neoprimitivism.
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A spiritual movement, sometimes classed as a Christian denomination, promoting the ideas that Infinite Intelligence, or God, is everywhere, spirit is the totality of real things, true human selfhood is divine, divine thought is a force for good, sickness originates in the mind, and "right thinking" has a healing effect.
n
hatred between philologists over academic points of disagreement
adj
Exhibiting or relating to omnitheism.
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(philosophy) A scholar or theorist of ontology, or an adherent of a particular ontological doctrine.
n
The ontology of God and/or the theology of being; a tradition of philosophical theology first prominent among medieval scholastics, notably Duns Scotus.
n
Right belief combined with right practice, with the emphasis being on the latter, a term specially used in Latin American liberation theology, often in contrast with an orthodoxy seen as insufficiently interested in the practical and political content of faith.
n
Alternative spelling of panpsychism [(philosophy, metaphysics, uncountable) The doctrine that all matter has a mental aspect.]
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(philosophy) The belief that nothing exists except the physical and temporal universe. [from 19th c.]
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(philosophy, religion) A doctrine that the universe subsists within God, but that God nevertheless transcends or has some existence separate from the universe.
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Alternative form of panpsychism [(philosophy, metaphysics, uncountable) The doctrine that all matter has a mental aspect.]
adj
Of or relating to pansophy; all-knowing, or comprehending all knowledge.
n
Complete and universal knowledge, or a system of such universal knowledge.
adj
Relating to perennialism.
adj
Relating to perspectivism.
adj
Relating to philomathy.
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(obsolete) An alchemist.
adj
Of, or pertaining to, philosophy.
adj
Relating to philosophy and law.
adj
Relating to philosophy and theology.
n
An annual competition where students explore philosophical and ethical issues.
n
a lover of all forms of life (as opposed to only humans or those life forms useful to humans)
n
(philosophy, rare) The science or study of faith.
n
The philosophy of Plato; Platonism.
n
(Gnosticism) The spiritual universe seen in terms of the full totality of the powers and essence of God.
n
A monistic ontology of physics founded on points.
n
A proponent of polylogism.
n
(more generally) The use of multiple approaches to a single issue.
n
The belief that a person may have multiple souls
adj
Of or pertaining to a fiction genre dealing with the collapse of society.
adj
Relating to postphenomenology.
adj
Relating to the philosophy of pragmaticism.
n
One who favors or practices art as it was before Raphael; one who favors or advocates Pre-Raphaelism.
adj
(metaphysics) precosmic
n
A kind of theology developed from process philosophy, and according to which it is an essential attribute of God to affect and be affected by temporal processes, rather than being eternal and immutable.
n
An early physicist; a practitioner of protophysics.
adj
Of or pertaining to pseudoreligion.
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(theology) The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body.
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The doctrine that God is pure spirit.
adj
(philosophy) Of or relating to relativism.
adj
Both religious and spiritual.
n
The philosophy and social tradition that integrates ethics, humanism and religious rituals.
n
One who believes in ethical philosophies that favor an emphasis on human needs
n
Synonym of sacerdotalism
adj
(philosophy) Of or relating to the philosophical tradition of scholasticism
n
Obsolete form of scholastic. [(philosophy) A member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian.]
adj
Of or characteristic of the philosopher Socrates or his philosophical methods and/or views.
adj
Alternative form of Socratic [Of or characteristic of the philosopher Socrates or his philosophical methods and/or views.]
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(Christianity) A controversial school of thought in Russian Orthodoxy, holding that divine wisdom is to be identified with God's essence, and that this divine wisdom is in some way expressed in the world as 'creaturely' wisdom.
adj
Pertaining to the ancient sophists.
adj
(philosophy) Of or pertaining to a sort, or kind.
adv
(theology) In terms of soteriology.
n
A person who believes in spiritual naturalism.
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(philosophy) One who maintains the philosophic doctrine of spiritualism.
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An advocate of supernaturalism.
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One who attempts syncretism, the fusion of different systems or beliefs.
adj
of, or relating to teleology; teleological
adj
Of or pertaining to teleology; showing evidence of design or purpose.
n
(philosophy, theology) A type of argument for the existence of God, stating that orderliness of nature is evidence of design, therefore also of a designer.
adj
Of or pertaining to teleonomy
n
A later middle dialogue of Plato concerning epistemology.
n
A spiritual and social philosophy developed in the early 1900s, calling each person to act in alignment with his or her True Will (which may or may not be the same as personal wishes) as a basis for spiritual growth.
adv
Concerning theological matters.
adj
Of or relating to theophilosophy.
n
someone who is expert in the theory of a particular science or art
adj
(obsolete) Relating to, or skilled in, theory.
adj
Of, or relating to theosophy.
n
Archaic spelling of theosophy. [(philosophy, religion) any doctrine of religious philosophy and mysticism claiming that knowledge of God can be attained through mystical insight and spiritual ecstasy, and that direct communication with the transcendent world is possible.]
n
(philosophy, religion) any doctrine of religious philosophy and mysticism claiming that knowledge of God can be attained through mystical insight and spiritual ecstasy, and that direct communication with the transcendent world is possible.
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(philosophy, theology) A range of philosophical and theological explorations of the idea that God may be dead.
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The doctrine that when the body dies, the soul also dies, and that both are to be called back to life at the Day of Judgement. This was first recorded as taught by the Thnētopsȳchītæ, a third century sect of Christianity in Arabia, and is based on 1 Timothy 6:16, an epistolary doxology addressed to the God who alone has immortality.
n
A person who performs thoughtography.
adj
(philosophy) Of, of related to the thymos.
n
(postmodern philosophy) The lived physical place, in opposition to the ideal of a utopia.
n
(political science, historical) The belief in the transformative power of Confucian culture as a superior system that can be universally applied to all people.
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A counterargument against the notion that the complexity of life and the universe necessitates the existence of a creator by pointing out that any creator is necessarily more complex than its creation.
n
(metaphysics) an underlying essence or consciousness in the universe
adj
(archaic) Synonym of unscholastic
adj
Of or relating to Utraquism.
n
Someone who believes in vitalism, the doctrine that life cannot be entirely reduced to physical and chemical factors.
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