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Western philosophy
The philosophical thinking of Western civilization as distinct from Eastern philosophies and the varieties of indigenous philosophies.
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action theory
Philosophy; Western philosophy
Branch of philosophy concerned with the analysis of what human beings do intentionally. This typically includes an effort to distinguish reactive actions from mere events and some proposal concerning ...
immanent activity
Philosophy; Western philosophy
The activity through which a living being perfects itself and makes itself the goal for the acquired actuality or perfection.
ad hoc polymorphism
Philosophy; Western philosophy
A kind of polymorphism in programming languages in which a function executes different code according to the type of the polymorphic parameter supplied. Special cases include overloading and ...
actuality and potentiality
Philosophy; Western philosophy
Aristotle's distinction between what really is the case and what merely has the power to change or to come to be the case. Thus, for example, the fresh acorn is actually a seed but potentially an oak ...
Robert Adamson
Philosophy; Western philosophy
(1852-1902) One of the most learned contemporary philosophers in the world. He was an outspoken agnostic and a utilitarian in ethics. In the symposium Ethical Democracy (1900) he says that even the ...
William Adamson
Philosophy; Western philosophy
(1863-1936) General Secretary of the Fife Miners7 Union from 1908 until his death. In 1910 he became Scotland's first miners' MP, representing Fife West until 1931. Prominent within the Parliamentary ...
adept
Philosophy; Western philosophy
The word literally means a person who is skilled; hence, even in our ordinary life, a chemist, a physician, a theologian, a mechanic, an engineer, a teacher of languages, an astronomer, are all ...
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