General philosophy

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solifidianism

Philosophy; General philosophy

In Christian theology, the position that reason is more-or-less irrelevant to religious belief, that rational or scientific arguments for the existence of God are fallacious and irrelevant, and have ...

finalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The philosophy that any event is defined by an already-set final outcome and that all events leading up to that outcome are shaped the end result.

formalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

1. A certain school in the philosophy of mathematics, stressing axiomatic proofs through theorems specifically associated with David Hilbert. 2. In economic anthropology, formalism is the theoretical ...

formulism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Meaning adherence to or reliance on formulas, is also a school of philosophy that states that good, evil and choosing the correct actions can all be determined from a simple formula.

freudianism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The beliefs and practice of psychoanalysis as devised by Sigmund Freud; particularly, the mechanism of psychological repression; the situation of sexual desire as central to the development of the ...

functionalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The dominant theory of mental states in modern philosophy. Functionalism was developed as an answer to the mind-body problem because of objections to both identity theory and logical behaviourism. ...

gnosticism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Various mystical initiatory religions, sects and knowledge schools, which were most prominent in the first few centuries CE. It is also applied to modern revivals of these groups and, sometimes, by ...