(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
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Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets.
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.Alt. of Esthetics
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge.
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.The theory or philosophy of taste; the science of the beautiful in nature and art; esp. that which treats of the expression and embodi…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting d…
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 science, doctrine, or demonstration of causes; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and…
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.Same as Dialectics.
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.the materialistic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.The science of causes. Same as /tiology.
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.The science of juridical law; the knowledge of the laws, customs, and rights of men in a state or community, necessary for the due adm…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or…
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 science or art of exact reasoning, or of pure and formal thought, or of the laws according to which the processes of pure thinking…
Used in the same subject area: Philosophy, General philosophy, Philosophy of mind.The science of real as distinguished from phenomenal being; ontology; also, the science of being, with reference to its abstract and u…
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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, philosophical, theory, matter, reality.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, theory, matter, reality.Alt. of Aesthetical
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, philosophical, theory, matter, reality.The philosophy of Aristotle, otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, philosophical, theory, matter, reality.a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delvi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, philosophical, theory, matter, reality.a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delvi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, philosophical, theory, matter, reality.The doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, philosophical, theory, matter, reality.The quality or condition of being two or twofold; dual character or usage.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, philosophical, theory, matter, reality.The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, philosophical, theory, matter, reality.Alt. of Esthetics
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, philosophical, theory, matter, reality.(philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: philosophy, philosophical, theory, matter, reality.(philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for w…
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