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

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burhan

Philosophy; General philosophy

The term is used in philosophy in various slightly different senses: (1) mode of argumentation; (2) the argument itself; and (3) the manifest evidence or proof of a convincing ...

Buruqlus

Philosophy; General philosophy

Proclus (410-485 B.C.): Neoplatonic philosopher and saint, regarded as the last great teacher of (the Hegel) of Neoplatonism. He wrote extensive commentaries on Plato's and ...

business cycle

Philosophy; General philosophy

More or less regular swings or wave-like fluctuations in the pace of a country's economic growth, well above and well below the long-term trend in the growth rate of total ...

Joseph Butler

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1692-1752) English clergyman and philosopher. Butler's Fifteen Sermons upon Human Nature attempted to establish human morality in the moderation of self-love by the authority of ...

Cantor's theorem

Philosophy; General philosophy

The power set of a given set has a greater cardinality than the given set.

natural capacity

Philosophy; General philosophy

The proximate accidental principle of operation, toward which (operation) it is specifically directed.

avichi

Philosophy; General philosophy

A word, the general meaning of which is "waveless," having no waves or movement, suggesting the stagnation of life and being in immobility; it also means "without happiness" or ...