General philosophy

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affirmative action

Philosophy; General philosophy

Positive steps to enhance the diversity of some group, often to remedy the cumulative effect of subtle as well as gross expressions of prejudice. When numerical goals are set, they are set according ...

affirmative proposition

Philosophy; General philosophy

A statement whose propositional quality is determined by its assertion that some or all members of one class of things are also included as members of some other class. Examples: "All spaniels are ...

Aflatun

Philosophy; General philosophy

Arabic for Plato (428-7 -348-7 B.C.) One of the greatest of Greek philosophers; disciple of Socrates on whose dialectic his whole philosophy is mainly based. The central doctrine is his theory of ...

afudiqtiqi

Philosophy; General philosophy

Analytica Posteriora or the Second Analytics, Aristotle's fourth book on logic.

agent

Philosophy; General philosophy

The person who performs an action. Ethical conduct is usually taken to presuppose the possibility that individual human agents are capable of acting responsibly.

agnishvatta

Philosophy; General philosophy

A compound of two words: agni, "fire"; shvatta, "tasted" or "sweetened," from svad, verb-root meaning "to taste" or "to sweeten." Therefore, literally one who has been delighted or sweetened by fire. ...

Agnosticism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Usually used to mean denying the possibility of knowing the nature or existence of God, but used by Marxists with the meaning of denying the possibility of knowledge of the objective world. ...