General philosophy

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pyrrhonism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A Hellenistic school of skepticism that inquired about, but did not reject, dogmatic beliefs because the lack of belief is not the same as disbelief.

pythagoreanism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The esoteric and metaphysical beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans, who were considerably influenced by mathematics. Pythagoreanism greatly influenced Platonism. Later ...

A non-cognitivist, expressivist meta-ethical and epistemological theory developed by professor Simon Blackburn. It holds that although propositions supervene on states of mind, they have many realist ...

randianism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The individualist movement founded by Ayn Rand, known by its adherents as objectivism.

rationalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A theory or method based on the thesis that human reason can in principle be the source of all knowledge. In the modern period, rationalism was initially championed by René Descartes and spread ...

critical rationalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The philosophy that tenants of science should always be criticized and questioned so as to continually prove their worth.

pancritical rationalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A sub-concept of critical rationalism, it argues that every tenant of science or commonly held truth should be questioned regardless of an authority figure's justification or assurance that it is ...