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The study of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
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organicism
Philosophy; General philosophy
Philosophical orientation that asserts that reality is best understood as an organic whole. By definition it is close to holism. Benedict Spinoza and Constantin Brunner are two ...
pacifism
Philosophy; General philosophy
In ethics or politics, an opposition to war or violence. Can range from advocacy of peaceful solutions to problems, to a stance where all violence or force is considered morally ...
panendeism
Philosophy; General philosophy
Is deism combined with the belief that the universe is part of God, but not all of God. Some panendeists have established numerous additional beliefs, and use more specialized ...
panpsychism
Philosophy; General philosophy
Either the view that all parts of matter involve mind, or the more holistic view that the whole universe is an organism that possesses a mind. It is thus a stronger and more ...
particularism
Philosophy; General philosophy
In the study of knowledge, particularism refers to the approach where one asks the question "What do we know?" before asking "How do we know?" The term appears in Roderick ...
pelagianism
Philosophy; General philosophy
The belief that original sin did not taint human nature (which, being created from God, was divine), and that mortal will is still capable of choosing good or evil without Divine ...
semipelagianism
Philosophy; General philosophy
A Christian theological understanding about salvation, derived from the earlier Pelagian teachings about salvation. It teaches that it is necessary for humans to make the first ...
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