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Any doctrine or philosophy that serves to confuse people.
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A concept in spirituality, philosophy and psychology related to achieving clarity of perception, reason and knowledge.
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(metaphysics) Pertaining to or exemplifying ersatzism
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conversational wit, one of the moral virtues proposed by Aristotle
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(philosophy) The public lectures or published writings of Aristotle.
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(philosophy) The doctrine that certain concepts are simply convenient fictions
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(philosophy) Of or pertaining to haecceitism.
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A person who uses illogical reasoning.
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The theory of dealing with illusions.
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(philosophy) The belief that phenomenalism and physicalism are alternative "world-versions", both useful in some circumstances, but neither capable of fully capturing the other.
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(philosophy) The philosophical stance that people are basically minds.
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(philosophy) The view that the explanation of consciousness is not possible by humans
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Having the appearance of nature or realism; lifelike or realistic.
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Pertaining to naturism (doctrine attributing everything to nature).
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One who holds that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters (the unmeasurable) or ultimate causes is impossible.
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(philosophy) Having a nominalist character
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(humorous) The study of nothingness.
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(philosophy) Inclined or related to perfectionism.
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(colloquial) Clipping of philosophy. [(uncountable, originally) The love of wisdom.]
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Engaging in petty or fallacious philosophy.
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(obsolete) philosophical speculation and discussion
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(obsolete) Alternative form of philosopher's wool. [(archaic) zinc oxide]
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(derogatory, archaic) A person who practises philosophy badly or wrongly.
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Obsolete form of philosophic. [Synonym of philosophical]
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spurious philosophy; the love or practice of sophistry
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Exhibiting a love of or tendency toward sophistry; pertaining to spurious philosophy.
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(derogatory) A person who creates superficial arguments or offers meaningless solutions, instead of practical ones.
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(philosophy) A notional living being used in discussing certain aspects of the philosophy of language.
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Obsolete form of pragmatic. [Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.]
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Obsolete form of pragmatic. [Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.]
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The pursuit of practicality over aesthetic qualities; a concentration on facts rather than emotions or ideals.
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(derogatory) One who practises pseudophilosophy.
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The system of skeptical philosophy established by Pyrrho of Elis, centred on the idea that nothing can be known for certain; widespread skepticism, universal doubt.
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Of or relating to sciolism, or a sciolist; showing only superficial knowledge.
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(slang) Pathological skepticism; an irrational belief that a phenomenon must be false merely because it is unusual or controversial.
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(obsolete, rare) Having the characteristics of a solecism.
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Archaic spelling of solecistic. [Pertaining to or involving a solecism.]
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(dated) Clipping of sophister (“student advanced beyond first year of residence”). [A sophist.]
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(countable) A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive.
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(figuratively) A teacher who uses plausible but fallacious reasoning.
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(historical, philosophy) The sophists of antiquity, in general or of a specific period; their beliefs and method.
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Pertaining to a sophist or sophistry.
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The philosophy or the methods of the sophists.
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(uncountable, historical) The actions or arguments of a sophist.
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(in Ancient Greek philosophy) Of a sound and well-balanced mind; moderate, prudent, sensible, reasonable.
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(obsolete) A wise man; a sage or wite.
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(philosophy) Having the character of a sortal.
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Obsolete form of theatric. [Relating to acting or the theater, theatrical.]
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(Buddhism) A belief that the physical world is illusion.
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