the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.
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(philosophy) a doctrine that mind is the true reality and that objects exist only as aspects of the mind's awareness
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(philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.(philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.(art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art); "tradition…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.the philosophical theory of knowledge
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.(art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art); "tradition…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.the philosophical study of moral values and rules
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.the philosophical study of moral values and rules
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.the philosophical study of causation
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.the study of values and value judgments
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.the materialistic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
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Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.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: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.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: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.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: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.the philosophical study of being and knowing
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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, doctrine, mind, true, reality.To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, doctrine, mind, true, reality.The philosophy of Aristotle, otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, doctrine, mind, true, reality.To exist in a certain manner or relation, -- whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain pre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, doctrine, mind, true, reality.Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated; as, diversified scenery or landscape.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, doctrine, mind, true, reality.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, mind, true, reality.A fluctuation of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, doctrine, mind, true, reality.the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, doctrine, mind, true, reality.That philosophy or doctrine which recognizes or deals only with externals, or objects of sense perception; positivism; phenomenalism.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, doctrine, mind, true, reality.The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying su…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, doctrine, mind, true, reality.The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; tha…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, doctrine, mind, true, reality.Any system of religious doctrine; sometimes, any system of political doctrine or social philosophy; as, this political gospel.
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