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The study of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
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epistemology
Philosophy; General philosophy
Traditionally, the theory of knowledge. Answering the question: what kinds of knowledge can we have of the external world of objects, of minds other than our own, of mathematical ...
empiricist
Philosophy; General philosophy
Specifically, a British philosopher of the 17th and 18th century such as Hobbes, tended to believe that knowledge derives from our sensory experience and its ramifications. ...
cartesian doubt
Philosophy; General philosophy
In his Meditations, Descartes (1596-1650) proposed discarding any kind of belief that could be doubted, that might be false. Initially, he was inclined to doubt all the evidences ...
dialectic
Philosophy; General philosophy
The process, particularly employed in Plato’s dialogues, of discovering first principles, or underlying realities, through digging out, possibly through Socratic questioning of ...
deontological
Philosophy; General philosophy
(De=obligation + logical) A deontological ethics is one that claims that it is something in the nature or structure of actions that makes them obligatory or impermissible ...
deduction
Philosophy; General philosophy
A presumably valid argument in which the argument proceeds from premises to conclusion in such a way that if the premisses are true, the conclusion absolutely must be true. An ...
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