General philosophy

General philosophy

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non-cognitivism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The meta-ethical view that moral statements do not assert propositions i.e. they do not express factual claims or beliefs and therefore lack truth-value. This view should be distinguished from moral ...

nontheism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The absence of belief in both the existence and non-existence of a deity (or deities, or other numinous phenomena). The word is often employed as a blanket term for all belief systems that are not ...

objectivism

Philosophy; General philosophy

In ethics, the belief that certain acts are objectively right or wrong.

occasionalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Philosophical theory about causation stating that created substances cannot be efficient causes of events. Instead, all events are taken to be caused directly by God Himself. (A related theory, which ...

ontologism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Ideological system that maintains that God and Divine ideas are the first object of our intelligence and that the intuition of God the first act of our intellectual knowledge. Note that Martin ...

operationalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The philosophy of defining a concept as the operations that will measure the concept (variables) through specific observations.

optimism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Historically, the philosophical position that this is the best of all possible worlds, usually associated with Gottfried Leibniz. More often used to describe a cheerful or positive worldview.