General philosophy

General philosophy

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immortalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Another name for immortality (or eternal life), is the concept of existing for a potentially infinite, or indeterminate length, of time. Throughout history, humans have had the desire to live ...

incompatibilism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The view that free will and determinism are not compatible. Incompatibilists that believe in free will are “libertarians” and those who reject free will are “hard determinists.”

indeterminism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The philosophical belief contradictory to determinism: that there are events that do not correspond with determinism (and therefore are uncaused in some sense).

In political philosophy, the view that the rights or well-being of individuals are to be protected, rather than the well-being of groups such as nations or states, ideologies (such as communism or ...

inductionism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The scientific philosophy where laws are "induced" from sets of data. As an example, one might measure the strength of electrical forces at varying distances from charges and induce the inverse ...

inductivism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A philosophy that holds that scientific research is guided by the various observations and data produced by previous science experiments; In other words, that science progresses in a direction that ...

evolutionary creationism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A lesser used term for theistic evolution, the general opinion that some or all classical religious teachings about God and creation are compatible with some or all of the modern scientific ...