General philosophy

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epistemology

Philosophy; General philosophy

Traditionally, the theory of knowledge. Answering the question: what kinds of knowledge can we have of the external world of objects, of minds other than our own, of mathematical objects, and so on.

empiricist

Philosophy; General philosophy

Specifically, a British philosopher of the 17th and 18th century such as Hobbes, tended to believe that knowledge derives from our sensory experience and its ramifications. Berkeley and Hume, in ...

cartesian doubt

Philosophy; General philosophy

In his Meditations, Descartes (1596-1650) proposed discarding any kind of belief that could be doubted, that might be false. Initially, he was inclined to doubt all the evidences of his senses ...

dialectic

Philosophy; General philosophy

The process, particularly employed in Plato’s dialogues, of discovering first principles, or underlying realities, through digging out, possibly through Socratic questioning of another, what is ...

deontological

Philosophy; General philosophy

(De=obligation + logical) A deontological ethics is one that claims that it is something in the nature or structure of actions that makes them obligatory or impermissible (essentially ignoring ...

A presumably valid argument in which the argument proceeds from premises to conclusion in such a way that if the premisses are true, the conclusion absolutely must be true. An inductive argument is ...