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The study of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.

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accidental and essential
Philosophy; General philosophy

A property is essential for an object if the object must have the property to exist and be the kind of thing that it is. A property is accidental if the object has the ...

analogy
Philosophy; General philosophy

An analogy is a similarity between things. In an argument from analogy, one argues from known similarities to further similarities. Such arguments often occur in philosophy. In ...

agent-causation
Philosophy; General philosophy

Agent-causation is a (putative) type of causation that can best be understood by contrasting it with event-causation. When a ball hits and breaks a window, one may think of ...

Occasionalism
Philosophy; General philosophy

Occasionalism is a theory in philosophy that causality is essentially an illusion—that substances are created by God and that what appears to be cause and effect between ...

Ontology
Philosophy; General philosophy

Ontology is a branch of metaphysics which studies being. Ontology is concerned with the ultimate nature of being, and of all reality in general. The process of studying ...

Phenomenalism in Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy; General philosophy

Phenomenalism is the position that the physical world exists only as sensory data in the perception of minds, and not as a substance or a thing in itself. Phenomenalism is a form ...

Philosophical Zombie
Philosophy; General philosophy

In the philosophy of mind, a philosophical zombie (or a p-zombie) is a thought experiment. The zombie is a hypothetical creature that appears and behaves exactly as a human being ...

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