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Philosophy

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

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deductivism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A philosophy that holds that scientific inquiry proceeds by formulating a hypothesis in a form that could conceivably be falsified by a test on observable data.

defeatism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Defeatism is acceptance and content with defeat without struggle. In everyday use, defeatism has negative connotation, and is often linked to treason and pessimism. The term is ...

deism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The view that reason, rather than revelation or tradition, should be the basis of belief in God. Deists reject both organized and revealed religion and maintain that reason is the ...

pandeism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Combines deism with pantheism (under theism, below) to propose a deistic God that becomes a pantheistic Universe; coined by Moritz Lazarus and Heymann Steinthal in Zeitschrift für ...

deontologism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Ethical theory considered solely on duty and rights, where one has an unchanging moral obligation to abide by a set of defined principles. Thus, the ends of any action never ...

descriptivism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Also called the Descriptivist theory of names, is a view of the nature of the meaning and reference of proper names generally attributed to Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell. The ...