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Philosophy
The study of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
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non-cognitivism
Philosophy; General philosophy
The meta-ethical view that moral statements do not assert propositions i.e. they do not express factual claims or beliefs and therefore lack truth-value. This view should be ...
nontheism
Philosophy; General philosophy
The absence of belief in both the existence and non-existence of a deity (or deities, or other numinous phenomena). The word is often employed as a blanket term for all belief ...
objectivism
Philosophy; General philosophy
In ethics, the belief that certain acts are objectively right or wrong.
occasionalism
Philosophy; General philosophy
Philosophical theory about causation stating that created substances cannot be efficient causes of events. Instead, all events are taken to be caused directly by God Himself. (A ...
ontologism
Philosophy; General philosophy
Ideological system that maintains that God and Divine ideas are the first object of our intelligence and that the intuition of God the first act of our intellectual knowledge. ...
operationalism
Philosophy; General philosophy
The philosophy of defining a concept as the operations that will measure the concept (variables) through specific observations.
optimism
Philosophy; General philosophy
Historically, the philosophical position that this is the best of all possible worlds, usually associated with Gottfried Leibniz. More often used to describe a cheerful or ...
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