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The study of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
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dualism
Philosophy; General philosophy
The term dualism has a number of uses in philosophy, but perhaps the most common is to describe positions on the mind-body problem that hold that the mind cannot be identified ...
cosmos
Philosophy; General philosophy
The cosmos is the universe considered as an integrated orderly system. Sometimes the cosmos is the orderly part of a larger whole, the other part being chaos. Any account of the ...
deductivism
Philosophy; General philosophy
Deductivism is the thesis that science should focus solely on deductive arguments rather than inductive arguments because there is no good response to the problem of induction. ...
absolutism
Philosophy; General philosophy
The view that there are some types of action that are strictly prohibited by morality, no matter what the specific facts are in particular case. Some have held, for example, that ...
behaviorism
Philosophy; General philosophy
Behaviorism is used in somewhat different senses in psychology and philosophy. In psychology, behaviorism was a twentieth-century movement that maintained that the study of ...
empiricism
Philosophy; General philosophy
Empiricism is an epistemological position that emphasizes the importance of experience and denies or is very skeptical of claims to a priori knowledge or concepts. The empirical ...
en-soi
Philosophy; General philosophy
According to the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, the world is divided between two sorts of beings: beings-in-themselves (en-soi)and beings-for-themselves pour-soi). ...
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