(philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science…
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(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
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(philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) the philosophical theory that all of mathematics can be derived from formal logic
Used in the same subject area: 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: Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) a doctrine that mind is the true reality and that objects exist only as aspects of the mind's awareness
Used in the same subject area: 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: Philosophy, General philosophy.the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.(Stoic philosophy) a matter having no moral merit or demerit.; "Esteem (or reputation, fame, glory) was for Stoics an adiaphoron, and…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful; "he despised the esthetic of minimalism"
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.(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: Philosophy, General philosophy.(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: Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) The doctrine of Cyrenaics that people should ultimately aim at the pleasure of the present moment, disregarding future pa…
Used in the same subject area: 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: Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful; "he despised the esthetic of minimalism"
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for w…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for w…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.(philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for w…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy.
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Characterizing that kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arriv…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, doctrine, knowledge, derives, experience.Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, doctrine, knowledge, derives, experience.Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, doctrine, knowledge, derives, experience.A contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; -- in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attem…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, doctrine, knowledge, derives, experience.belief in a priori principles or reasoning; specifically : the doctrine that knowledge rests upon principles that are self-evident to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, doctrine, knowledge, derives, experience.a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, doctrine, knowledge, derives, experience.To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the Anglo-Saxon.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, doctrine, knowledge, derives, experience.One who derives.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, doctrine, knowledge, derives, experience.That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, doctrine, knowledge, derives, experience.plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, doctrine, knowledge, derives, experience.An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, doctrine, knowledge, derives, experience.The doctrine that experience, either that ourselves or of others, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to intuiti…
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