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General philosophy

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legal interpretivism

Philosophy; General philosophy

School of thought in the philosophy of law, in which law is not considered to be a set of data or physical facts, but what lawyers aim to construct. It holds that there is no separation between law ...

intrinsicism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A philosophy that holds that the intrinsic value of an object cannot be judged by humans.

intuitionism

Philosophy; General philosophy

In the philosophy of mathematics, intuitionism, or neointuitionism (opposed to preintuitionism), is an approach to mathematics as the constructive mental activity of humans. That is, mathematics does ...

irrationalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A philosophy that claims that science is inferior to intuition, with art and the conquest of the aesthetic being the ultimate transcendence of the humanity.

irrealism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A philosophy combining the phenomenalism and physicalism in epistemology with the view that either could be used interchangeably as agents of free will and study of the aesthetic.

islamism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A set of political ideologies derived from various religious views of Muslim fundamentalists, which hold that Islam is not only a religion, but also a political system that governs the legal, ...

jainism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A dharmic religion centered around asceticism and ahimsa, or nonviolence.

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