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The study of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
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Abelard, Peter
Philosophy; General philosophy
French scholastic logician whose sexual relationship with his teen-aged student Héloïse provoked the vengeful anger of her uncle, Fulbert, in 1118. Despite the many distractions ...
abstraction
Philosophy; General philosophy
The process of forming a general concept by omitting every distinguishing feature from our notions of some collection of particular things; thus, substantively, an abstraction is ...
analogy
Philosophy; General philosophy
Similarity in several respects between discrete cases. A logical argument by analogy relies upon an inductive inference from the supposition that things are similar is certain ...
abstraction
Philosophy; General philosophy
The process of forming a general concept by omitting every distinguishing feature from our notions of some collection of particular things; thus, substantively, an abstraction is ...
Monism
Philosophy; General philosophy
In the philosophy of mind, monism is an answer to the mind-body problem, which holds that there is only one substance that exists, be it mind or body. The two main versions of the ...
Moral Absolutism
Philosophy; General philosophy
Moral absolutism is the meta-ethical view that some forms of human conduct are right or wrong (alternatively, good or evil) in any context. Even for the purpose of doing good, bad ...
The Mind-Body Problem
Philosophy; General philosophy
The mind-body problem is an ongoing problem in the philosophy of mind and in metaphysics, concerning the nature of the relationship between the mind, or conciousness, and the ...
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