(philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science…
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Logical positivism
the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)
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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) 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…
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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: empiricism, bases, knowledge, perceptual, experience.Of or pertaining to a revelation, or, specifically, to the Revelation of St. John; containing, or of the nature of, a prophetic revela…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: empiricism, bases, knowledge, perceptual, experience.the doctrine and practice of a 19th century Iranian sect that affirmed the progressiveness of revelation, held that no revelation was…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: empiricism, bases, knowledge, perceptual, experience.Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: empiricism, bases, knowledge, perceptual, experience.(psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: empiricism, bases, knowledge, perceptual, 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: empiricism, bases, knowledge, perceptual, experience.An expert or experienced person; one instructed by experience; one who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: empiricism, bases, knowledge, perceptual, experience.To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: empiricism, bases, knowledge, perceptual, experience.one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: empiricism, bases, knowledge, perceptual, experience.To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: empiricism, bases, knowledge, perceptual, experience.a perceptual structure; "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only obje…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: empiricism, bases, knowledge, perceptual, experience.an impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: empiricism, bases, knowledge, perceptual, experience.
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