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The study of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
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solifidianism
Philosophy; General philosophy
In Christian theology, the position that reason is more-or-less irrelevant to religious belief, that rational or scientific arguments for the existence of God are fallacious and ...
finalism
Philosophy; General philosophy
The philosophy that any event is defined by an already-set final outcome and that all events leading up to that outcome are shaped the end result.
formalism
Philosophy; General philosophy
1. A certain school in the philosophy of mathematics, stressing axiomatic proofs through theorems specifically associated with David Hilbert. 2. In economic anthropology, ...
formulism
Philosophy; General philosophy
Meaning adherence to or reliance on formulas, is also a school of philosophy that states that good, evil and choosing the correct actions can all be determined from a simple ...
freudianism
Philosophy; General philosophy
The beliefs and practice of psychoanalysis as devised by Sigmund Freud; particularly, the mechanism of psychological repression; the situation of sexual desire as central to the ...
functionalism
Philosophy; General philosophy
The dominant theory of mental states in modern philosophy. Functionalism was developed as an answer to the mind-body problem because of objections to both identity theory and ...
gnosticism
Philosophy; General philosophy
Various mystical initiatory religions, sects and knowledge schools, which were most prominent in the first few centuries CE. It is also applied to modern revivals of these groups ...
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