General philosophy

General philosophy

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dialetheism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A metaphysical doctrine according to which there are true contradictions.

disjunctivism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A direct realist view that rejects the existence of some sense data.

A co-operative economic theory in which productive property is distributed among all individuals, rather than being held by the state or in common as in socialism or under the control of the few in ...

dogmatism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Inflexible adherence to rigid belief or doctrine established by a religion, ideology or any kind of organization, held to be authoritative and not to be disputed, doubted or diverged from. A dogmatic ...

dualism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A set of beliefs that begins with the claim that the mental and the physical have a fundamentally different nature. It is contrasted with varying kinds of monism, including materialism and ...

substance dualism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Is a type of ontological dualism defended by Descartes in which it is claimed that there are two fundamental kinds of substance: mental and material. The mental does not extend in space, and material ...

dynamism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Term coined by Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) and developed into a full system of cosmology. The Dynamism idea in metaphysical cosmology explains the material world in terms of active, point-like ...