General philosophy

General philosophy

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experientialism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The philosophy that knowledge is to be measured according to experiences and first hand accounts.

experimentalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A philosophy that uses data obtained from experiments in order to ascertain the integrity of an idea or proposed concept.

An aesthetic and artistic movement that distorted reality for enhanced or overexaggerated emotional effect. It can also apply to some literature; the works of Franz Kafka and Georg Kaiser are often ...

expressivism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A theory about the meaning of moral language. According to expressivism, sentences that employ moral terms–for example, "It is wrong to torture an innocent human being"–are not descriptive or ...

externalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

In epistemology, the theory that justification can hold elements not known to the subject of the belief.

naïve realism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The common view of the world including the claims that it is as it is perceived, that objects have the properties attributed to them, and that they maintain these properties when not being perceived.