General philosophy

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nominalist

Philosophy; General philosophy

In the middle ages, someone who maintained that there wer no universals above and beyond particular individual things and words (marks on paper) in particular languages. See realist. Today, we tend ...

naturalistic fallacy

Philosophy; General philosophy

In a book written early in this century, Principia Ethica, G. E. Moore put forward the view that naturalism (which see) in any of its forms commits the naturalistic fallacy. Moore thought that “good” ...

naturalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

In ethics and politics, the view that ethical judgements are descriptive and objective when properly made: that ethical terms could be replaced by obviously descriptive terms, as utilitarianism ...

metaphysics

Philosophy; General philosophy

Traditionally, the attempt to determine what general sorts of things there are in the universe (particularly those of a basic, non-reducible sort). But to do this is also to suggest a classification ...

mentalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The view that psychology must concern itself with abstract mental processes that are only distantly related to observed behavior. See behaviorism.

idealism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The theory that the external world is fundamentally immaterial and a dimension of the mind. That is, reality is of the nature of mind or consciousness (non-material). There are many types of ...

logical empiricist

Philosophy; General philosophy

A term for those 20th century philosophers who maintain that empiricism is right on purely logical (not psychological) grounds. Empiricism becomes a theory about the meaning of synthetic ...