(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 philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not perceived
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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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A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; h…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, philosophical, doctrine, physical, objects.The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necess…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, philosophical, doctrine, physical, objects.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, philosophical, doctrine, physical, objects.To remain; to continue or be permanent in a place or state; to continue to be.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, philosophical, doctrine, physical, objects.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, philosophical, doctrine, physical, objects.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, philosophical, doctrine, physical, objects.One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, philosophical, doctrine, physical, objects.Any system of religious doctrine; sometimes, any system of political doctrine or social philosophy; as, this political gospel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, philosophical, doctrine, physical, objects.Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being per…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, philosophical, doctrine, physical, objects.To be or continue in existence; to exist; to remain; to be permanent; to last; -- said of inanimate objects, ideas, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, philosophical, doctrine, physical, objects.The doctrine of philosophical necessity; the doctrine that results follow by invariable sequence from causes, and esp. that the will i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, philosophical, doctrine, physical, objects.a system of philosophical and theological doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism; its…
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