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(philosophy) A philosophy originally developed by certain German idealists such as Hegel and Schelling, which affirms that reality is grounded in cognition as a single, fundamental and unlimited principle of being that unites subject and object.
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(philosophy) An ideology of limitless alternatives, and/or the practice of relating every logical alternative to a larger truth.
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(philosophy) The idea that propositions can be neither true nor false, that is that they can lack truth value, the opposite of the Law of Excluded Middle.
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(philosophy) Someone who practices analytic philosophy.
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(philosophy) The utilitarianist doctrines of Jeremy Bentham.
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Relating to the utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham.
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(philosophy) Of or supporting coherentism
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(philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
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(philosophy) Of, pertaining to or supporting compatibilism, the belief that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
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(philosophy) The positivistic philosophy of Auguste Comte (1798–1857), according to which metaphysics and theology should be replaced by a hierarchy of sciences from mathematics at the base to sociology at the top.
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(philosophy) A philosophy in which attributes are conferred on objects
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Relating to conjunctivism.
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(law) A strict interpretation of the actual words and phrases used in law, rather than to any underlying intent.
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Of, pertaining to, or advocating constructionism.
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Of, or related to constructionism.
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Of or relating to constructivism.
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Relating to constructivism.
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(philosophy) The philosophy concerned with the contingency of existence or other metaphysical concepts.
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(philosophy) Of, pertaining to, or supporting conventionalism
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Of or pertaining to deconstruction.
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(chiefly philosophy) Characteristic of, related to, or supporting deconstructionism
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Tending to deconstruct; of or relating to deconstruction.
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Of or pertaining to deconstructivism.
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Of or relating to deconstructivism.
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(philosophy) A theory proposing that assertions that predicate truth of a statement do not attribute a property called truth to such a statement.
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Alternative form of deontology [(ethics) Ethics.]
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(ethics) A philosopher or other thinker who advocates or employs a deontological approach to ethics.
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Subscribing to, or related to, descriptivism.
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(rare) An advocate of determinablism
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Synonym of elementarism (“the view that things are constructed from simpler elements”)
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(philosophy) The materialist view that the majority of the mental states assumed by common sense like belief or sensation do not exist.
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(philosophy) The materialist view that the majority of the mental states assumed by common sense like belief or sensation do not exist.
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an advocate or supporter of empiricism
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A proponent of empiriocriticism.
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One who subscribes to the philosophy of epistemicism.
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A person, especially a philosopher, who studies theory of knowledge.
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(education) The doctrine that there are certain traditional concepts, values, and skills that are essential to society and should be taught to all students.
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A monistic ontology of physics founded on events.
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(philosophy) One who supports or argues for evidentialism
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Of, or related to fallibilism.
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(sciences) Of a philosophy, using experiment and observation to attempt to show that a scientific theory is false, rather than attempting to verify it.
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(philosophy) A supporter of foundationalism, the doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs
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(philosophy) A view on free will which holds that determinism is true, that it is incompatible with free will, and therefore that free will does not exist.
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(philosophy, theology) A doctrine based on immanence, especially the immanence of God.
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(philosophy) The metaphysical denial of the existence of the material world
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A belief system that places little importance on individuals and their subjective viewpoints and experiences.
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(philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are incompatible, that one necessarily precludes the other.
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Relating to infinitism
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One who studies or subscribes to interactionism.
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A philosophical movement formed as a cultural reaction against positivism in the early 20th century.
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(philosophy) The philosophical system of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and his followers; also called transcendental idealism.
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(philosophy) The proposition that the universe began to exist last Thursday, with the appearance of age and history.
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(ethics, philosophy) Of, pertaining to or supporting longtermism (“an ethical stance which gives priority to improving the long-term future”).
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(philosophy) The view that nothing is fixed
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(metaphysics) necessarianism
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(philosophy) A philosophy that rejects the noumena of Kant, restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories
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A philosophical view that sees science and religion as distinct and separate domains.
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(philosophy) The metaethical view that ethical sentences do not express propositions and thus cannot be true or false.
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(philosophy) The stance that the nature of reality is unknowable because all information comes through the senses, which are unreliable.
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Of or pertaining to objectivism.
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(epistemology) The belief that there are situations where the evidence for a proposition justifies either believing or doubting that proposition.
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(philosophy, epistemology) An allegorical cave whose unwitting, chained inhabitants perceive reality only in the form of shadow puppetry cast by the light of a man-made fire, lacking any awareness of the limitations of their perspective or its constructed nature.
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(philosophy) The belief that a plural predicate refers to its individuals rather than to a collective.
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Related to positivism, positivistic.
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(philosophy) The belief that possible things exist, as well as actual things.
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(philosophy) Of or pertaining to the philosophy of possibilism.
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A doctrine that rejects structuralism’s claims to objectivity and emphasises the plurality of meaning.
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Application of the postformal stage of cognitive development.
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Applying the postformal stage of cognitive development.
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(philosophy) A metatheoretical stance that critiques and amends positivism. While positivists believe that the researcher and the researched person are independent of each other, postpositivists accept that theories, background, knowledge and values of the researcher can influence what is observed. They believe that human knowledge is based not on unchallengeable, rock-solid foundations, but rather upon human conjectures.
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(archaeology) postprocessual attitudes and approaches generally.
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(philosophy) An extension of structuralism influenced by deconstructionism
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A Peircean philosophy based on strict logic, the immutability of truth, the reality of infinity, and the difference between (i) actively willing to control thought, to doubt, to weigh reasons, and (ii) willing not to exert the will, willing to believe.
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(philosophy) The idea that beliefs are identified with the actions of a believer, and the truth of beliefs with success of those actions in securing a believer's goals; the doctrine that ideas must be looked at in terms of their practical effects and consequences.
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Relating to the theory of preformationism.
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(philosophy) The view that the goodness of an outcome is a function of overall well-being across all individuals, with extra weight given to those who are worse off.
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(theology) The position that it is not lawful to act on a less safe opinion in moral matters unless it is more probable than a safe opinion.
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(rare, philosophy) Of or pertaining to probabiliorism; stochastic.
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(theology, chiefly Catholicism) The casuistic doctrine that, in difficult matters of conscience, one may safely follow a doctrine that is probable, e.g. approved by a recognized Doctor of the Church, even if the opposite opinion is more probable.
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(philosophy) A philosophy in which the qualities of an object are 'projected' onto it as though they actually belong to it.
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(theology) The belief that a religious text should be treated as a series of logical propositions.
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(philosophy, religion) philosophy, especially religious, that treats will or conscious intent as a basal fact
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A cognitive scientist who endorses qualia as being unmeasurable by heterophenomenology.
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(philosophy) A doctrine stating that ratifiable choices are the ones that should be made.
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(philosophy) A theory espoused by Ayn Rand, combining this doctrine with ethical egoism.
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A postmodern movement concerned with the conscious reconstruction of reality, particularly, but not exclusively, with regard to social reality.
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Of or pertaining to reconstructivism
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Of, or relating to reductionism.
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(philosophy of mind) The view that mental states can be reduced to physical phenomena.
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Of or relating to reductivism.
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(countable, philosophy) A specific such theory, advocated by a particular philosopher or school of thought.
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(philosophy) Of or pertaining to reliabilism
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Of or relating to reliabilism.
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Pertaining to situationism
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(sociology) social constructivism
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(philosophy) Regarding subjective experience as fundamental.
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Relating to, or believing in, substantialism.
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(philosophy) The tendency to regard things such as space, time, and law as continuous.
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A philosophical system which makes tradition the supreme criterion and rule of certitude; the doctrine that human reason is of itself radically unable to know with certainty any truth or, at least, the fundamental truths of the metaphysical, moral, and religious order.
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(philosophy) A characteristic or property that particular things have in common.
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(philosophy) A value that has the same value or worth for all, or almost all, people.
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Relating to utilitarianism
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Relating to verificationism.
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