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The study of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
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contextualism
Philosophy; General philosophy
A collection of views that emphasize the context in which an action, utterance or expression occurs, and argues that, in some important respect, the action, utterance or ...
conventionalism
Philosophy; General philosophy
Philosophical attitude that fundamental principles of a certain kind are grounded on (explicit or implicit) agreements in society, rather than on external reality. Although this ...
creationism
Philosophy; General philosophy
Also referred to as creation theology is the belief that humans, life, the Earth, and the universe were created by a supreme being or deity's supernatural intervention. The ...
day-age creationism
Philosophy; General philosophy
A type of Old Earth creationism, it is an effort to reconcile Creation as presented in Genesis with modern scientific theories on the age of the Universe. It holds that the six ...
symbolism
Philosophy; General philosophy
Applied use of any iconic representations that carry particular conventional meanings. "Symbolism" may refer to a way of choosing representative symbols abstractly rather than ...
syncretism
Philosophy; General philosophy
The attempt to reconcile disparate, even opposing, beliefs and to meld practices of various schools of thought. It is especially associated with the attempt to merge and analogize ...
taoism
Philosophy; General philosophy
A group of Chinese religious and philosophical traditions. Philosophical Taoism emphasizes various themes found in the Daodejing and Zhuangzi such as "nonaction" (wu wei), ...
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