that branch of jurisprudence that studies the rights and obligations of parties entering into contracts
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(philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis.; "People persevere in asserting all sorts of things in the face of apparent counterevidence."
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(philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis.; "People persevere in asserting all sorts of thing…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Philosophy, General philosophy.the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Philosophy, General philosophy.the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Philosophy, General philosophy.the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science…
Used in the same subject area: Law, Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded…
Used in the same subject area: Law, Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes
Used in the same subject area: Law, Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science…
Used in the same subject area: Law, Philosophy, General philosophy.(law) an inference of the truth of a fact from other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Philosophy.(law) evidence sufficient to warrant an arrest or search and seizure; "a magistrate determined that there was probable cause to search…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Philosophy.(philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful; "he despised the esthetic of minimalism"
Used in the same subject area: Law, Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often underst…
Used in the same subject area: Law, Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
Used in the same subject area: Law, Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful; "he despised the esthetic of minimalism"
Used in the same subject area: Law, Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality
Used in the same subject area: Law, Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired primarily by intuition
Used in the same subject area: Law, Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality
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Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, sciences, evidence, tends, disprove.A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, sciences, evidence, tends, disprove.To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, sciences, evidence, tends, disprove.a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidenc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, sciences, evidence, tends, disprove.give evidence of; "The evidence argues for your claim"; "The results indicate the need for more work"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, sciences, evidence, tends, disprove.a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true; "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, sciences, evidence, tends, disprove.A collection or quantity of things distributed into kinds or sorts; a number of things assorted.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, sciences, evidence, tends, disprove.Auguste Comte's positivistic philosophy that metaphysics and theology should be replaced by a hierarchy of sciences from mathematics a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, sciences, evidence, tends, disprove.To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, sciences, evidence, tends, disprove.a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence); "speculations about the outcome…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, sciences, evidence, tends, disprove.To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular conditio…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, sciences, evidence, tends, disprove.The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowled…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, sciences, evidence, tends, disprove.The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preexisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inc…
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