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- Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal (Arabic: أحمد بن حنبل Ahmad bin Hanbal ...7 KB (1,052 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- Category:Public In the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, noumenon, thing in itself (German Ding an sich), and transcendental object are nearly synonymous ...9 KB (1,461 words) - 22:14, 16 November 2022
- Historicism is a position that holds that all knowledge and cognition are historically conditioned. It is also widely used in diverse disciplines ...14 KB (2,067 words) - 15:55, 25 January 2023
- The Cyrenaics were one of the two earliest Socratic schools of philosophy which flourished during the fourth and early third centuries B.C.E ...9 KB (1,293 words) - 06:55, 12 January 2024
- The term Absolute denotes unconditioned and/or independence in the strongest sense. It can include or overlap with meanings implied by other ...15 KB (2,179 words) - 06:35, 14 June 2023
- Category:Public Philosophy of action is chiefly concerned with human action, intending to distinguish between activity and passivity, voluntary ...15 KB (2,383 words) - 05:40, 15 June 2023
- Positivism is a family of philosophical views characterized by a highly favorable account of science and what is taken to be the scientific method ...11 KB (1,561 words) - 05:45, 30 November 2022
- *Novak, Michael. Belief and Unbelief; A Philosophy of Self-Knowledge. New York: Macmillan, 1965. *O'Connell, Robert J. William James on the ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- Rationalism is a broad family of positions in epistemology. Perhaps the best general description of rationalism is the view that there are some ...12 KB (1,850 words) - 01:30, 8 December 2022
- African African Journals OnLine (AJOL) [http://www.ajol.info African Journal Online official site] Retrieved November 22, 2017. is a non-profit ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 07:06, 13 June 2023
- Category:Public Parmenides of Elea (c. 515 – 450 b.c.e.) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher, born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 08:52, 18 November 2022
- New Age Music, known as a combination of mostly instrumental pieces creating sounds of a soothing, romantic, mood-elevating and sometimes sensual ...8 KB (1,225 words) - 16:29, 11 November 2022
- category:image wanted Metanarrative or grand narrative or mater narrative is a term developed by Jean-François Lyotard to mean a theory that ...13 KB (1,834 words) - 16:21, 9 November 2022
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Sociologists Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawny Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (September 8, 1864 – June 21, ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 20:13, 25 October 2022
- category:image wanted Generally, two quantities are commensurable if both can be measured in the same unit of measurement. For example, a distance ...17 KB (2,394 words) - 00:08, 8 January 2024
- category:image wanted Collaborative Learning-Work (CLW) was a concept first presented by Charles Findley in the 1980s as part of his research ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
- Samuel Slater (June 9, 1768 – April 21, 1835) was an early American industrialist popularly known as the "Founder of the American Industrial ...8 KB (1,244 words) - 03:02, 23 December 2022
- Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 – 215) (Titus Flavius Clemens) was an early Christian philosopher and one of the most distinguished teachers ...14 KB (2,240 words) - 11:08, 19 December 2023
- An axiom is a sentence or proposition that is taken for granted as true, and serves as a starting point for deducing other truths. In many usages ...16 KB (2,424 words) - 07:20, 23 August 2023
- Aeschines Socraticus (c. 425 – c. 350 B.C.E.) (Greek: Αἰσχίνης , sometimes but now rarely written as Aischines or Æschines), son of ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 05:49, 16 June 2023
- Protocol sentences or protocol statements, also known as basic sentences or basic statements--the terms atomic statements, observation sentences ...18 KB (2,743 words) - 08:18, 2 December 2022
- Category:Public Subjective idealism is a philosophical view based on the idea that nothing exists except through a perceiving mind. In this view ...8 KB (1,190 words) - 21:10, 26 February 2023
- It would not be an exaggeration to say that the distinction between appearance and reality is, and has always been, one of the principal focal ...17 KB (2,610 words) - 15:53, 11 August 2023
- Advaita Vedanta (IAST Advaita Vedānta ; Sanskrit अद्वैत वेदान्त ; əd̪vait̪ə veːd̪ɑːnt̪ə ), a sub-school of ...19 KB (2,943 words) - 06:21, 15 June 2023
- Abū-Yūsuf Ya’qūb ibn Ishāq al-Kindī (c. 801-873 C.E.) (Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب ابن إسحاق الكندي) (also known ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 04:13, 17 June 2023
- The term common sense (or, when used attributively as an adjective, commonsense, common-sense or commonsensical), based on a strict deconstruction ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- Nikolai Onufriyevich Lossky (Russian: Николай Онуфриевич Лосский) ( December 6|1870|November 24 – January 24, 1965) ...12 KB (1,405 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
- Bernardino Telesio (1509 – 1588) was an Italian philosopher and natural scientist. Opposing the Aristotelianism which characterized medieval ...7 KB (1,115 words) - 17:13, 29 September 2023
- Wilhelm Dilthey (November 19, 1833–October 1, 1911) was a German philosopher and psychologist, a major philosopher of the “philosophy of ...17 KB (2,371 words) - 19:48, 23 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:Landaff 1940s.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Teacher and student in 1941, Massachusetts]] ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 04:37, 27 February 2023
- Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (September 30, 1715 – August 3, 1780) was a Roman Catholic Abbé and a leading philosopher and psychologist of ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- In the Hindu religion, Sarasvati (Sanskrit sa|सरस्वती sarasvatī ) is the goddess of learning, knowledge, and the arts including ...16 KB (2,489 words) - 03:27, 23 December 2022
- Giambattista Vico or Giovanni Battista Vico (1668 – 1744) was an Italian philosopher, historian, and jurist. Vico presented his philosophical ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 20:24, 14 December 2023
- Gaston Bachelard (June 27, 1884 – October 16, 1962) was a French philosopher who rose to some of the most prestigious positions in the French ...12 KB (1,710 words) - 07:54, 23 January 2023
- John Norris (1657 – 1711), Anglican priest, philosopher and poet, is remembered as a Cambridge Platonist and as the sole English proponent ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 07:01, 3 August 2022
- Principle in philosophy and mathematics means a fundamental law or assumption. The word "principle" is derived from Latin "principium ...9 KB (1,192 words) - 22:57, 30 November 2022
- Pietro d'Abano (1257 - 1315) (his date of birth is also given as 1250 and 1246), also known as Petrus de Apono or Aponensis, was an Italian ...12 KB (1,811 words) - 05:30, 24 November 2022
- Vipassanā (Pāli) or vipaśyanā (विपश्यना) in (Sanskrit) means "insight" and is often used to describe a type of ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 20:31, 3 May 2023
- Agnosticism is the philosophical or religious view that the truth value of certain claims — particularly claims regarding the existence of ...18 KB (2,675 words) - 06:46, 16 June 2023
- truths; however, one's self-knowledge, which reveals to an ... of God and of one's self; self-knowledge being necessary to knowledge ...13 KB (1,975 words) - 05:20, 24 November 2022
- The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia naturalis), has several applications, according to its historical ...13 KB (1,838 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- Mechanics (from the Greek term Μηχανική ) is a branch of physics involving study of the movement of physical bodies when subjected to ...11 KB (1,457 words) - 03:51, 9 November 2022
- Luis Molina (born 1535 in Cuenca, Spain; died October 12, 1600 in Madrid) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian and philosopher who devised the theological ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 02:57, 5 November 2022
- The Nuremberg Code is a landmark document that delineates a set of fundamental ethical standards for research with human subjects and arose as ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 15:28, 10 October 2021
- Jakob Friedrich Fries (August 23, 1773 – August 10, 1843) was a German philosopher in the Kantian tradition. Unlike Immanuel Kant’s immediate ...9 KB (1,390 words) - 12:47, 6 November 2021
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Comenius, John Amos [[Image:Relief Komensky.jpg|thumb|200px|Comenius on relief at school building ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 00:05, 8 January 2024
- Representationism or Representative Theory of Perception, also known as indirect realism, epistemological dualism, the veil of perception, and ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 19:41, 16 April 2023
- Edwin Smith Papyrus, or Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, is a preserved medical document from ancient Egypt that traces to about the sixteenth to ...9 KB (1,436 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
- Francium (chemical symbol Fr, atomic number 87) is a radioactive metal found in minute amounts in uranium and thorium ores. Although many isotopes ...6 KB (795 words) - 04:56, 9 April 2024
- category:image wanted Uncertainty is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of fields, including philosophy, statistics, economics, ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 01:33, 3 May 2023
- Shri Madhvacharya (shortened as Madhva) (1238 – 1317 C.E.) was a Indian philosopher-sage who founded the Dvaita (dualistic) school of Hindu ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 04:55, 5 November 2022
- The Three Jewels (also called the Three Treasures or Triple Gem) are three religious vows that are made in the process of becoming a Buddhist ...14 KB (2,028 words) - 23:03, 30 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Botta, Paul-Émile Paul-Émile Botta (December 6, 1802 – March 29, 1870) was ...8 KB (1,273 words) - 16:48, 21 November 2022
- Reason, in philosophy, is the ability to form and operate upon concepts in abstraction, in accordance with rationality and logic. Discussion ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge and belief. The term ...41 KB (6,380 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- but as a living approach to the quest for self-knowledge. ==Influence in the West== Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel referred to Indian thought ...17 KB (2,516 words) - 14:43, 3 May 2023
- Alain de Lille (älăN' də lēl) , (Also called Alain of Lille, Lanus ab insulis, or De Insulis, Alain von Ryssel, Alanus de lnsulis) ...11 KB (1,642 words) - 04:25, 17 June 2023
- Category:Public Protagoras (in Greek Πρωταγόρας) (c. 481 B.C.E. – c. 420 B.C.E.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher born in Abdera ...6 KB (889 words) - 08:16, 2 December 2022
- Wisdom is a type of knowledge, similar to phronesis, that includes judgment for its proper applications to a given situation. The status of wisdom ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 23:18, 17 May 2023
- John Fiske (1842 - 1901), born Edmund Fisk Green, was an American philosopher, historian and writer who popularized European evolution theory ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 06:36, 8 April 2024
- Vallabha, or Sri Vallabhacharya (1479 - 1531), was a devotional philosopher, who founded the Pushti sect in India and the philosophy of Shuddha ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 14:14, 3 May 2023
- , a Sanskrit word meaning "revered thought," is the name of one of the six astika ("orthodox") schools of Hindu philosophy ...18 KB (2,750 words) - 18:03, 9 November 2022
- Pyrrho (c. 360 B.C.E. - c. 275 B.C.E.), a Greek philosopher from Elis, was credited in antiquity as being the first skeptic philosopher and the ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 03:54, 7 December 2022
- Emmanuel Lévinas (January 12, 1906 – December 25, 1995) was a French, Jewish philosopher and Talmudic commentator. He fought for the French ...17 KB (2,583 words) - 18:22, 13 February 2024
- Marine Engineering is a profession practiced by members of a ship's crew who operate and maintain the propulsion and other systems on board ...7 KB (1,011 words) - 15:57, 6 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Kroeber, Alfred L. [[Image:ishi.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Anthropologist Alfred L. ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 08:17, 20 July 2023
- Category:Public Tabula rasa (Latin: "scraped tablet," though often translated "blank slate") is the notion, popularized by ...9 KB (1,406 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
- Anatomy may refer either to the internal structure and organization of an organism, to any of the parts of an organism, or to the branch of biology ...14 KB (2,224 words) - 19:02, 26 July 2023
- "Cogito, ergo sum" (Latin: "I am thinking, therefore I exist," or traditionally "I think, therefore I am") is a ...12 KB (1,920 words) - 22:26, 7 January 2024
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126 – December 10, 1198) was an Andalusian-Arab philosopher and physician, a master of philosophy and Islamic law, mathematics ...19 KB (2,761 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- Tommaso Campanella (September 5, 1568 – May 21, 1639), baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian philosopher, Counter-Reformation ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 03:56, 1 May 2023
- to know ourselves. It is this search for self-knowledge and the personal question of “Who am I?” that motivated Ricouer in his development of ...18 KB (2,604 words) - 01:31, 23 November 2022
- Samkhya, also Sankhya, (Sanskrit for "Enumeration") is one of the orthodox or astika schools of Indian philosophy that recognizes the ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 02:13, 23 December 2022
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Bagley, William Chandler William Chandler Bagley (March 15, 1874 – July 1, 1946), was an American ...11 KB (1,638 words) - 15:55, 7 May 2023
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert (November 16, 1717 – October 29, 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher who ...12 KB (1,720 words) - 17:39, 2 April 2024
- Antinomy (Greek αντι-, against, plus νομος, law) literally means the mutual incompatibility, real or apparent, of two laws. It is a ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 06:35, 31 July 2023
- Dà Xué (大學 or 大学), usually translated as The Great Learning, refers to a short text of indeterminate authorship that is primarily concerned ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 14:25, 13 May 2020
- Ernst Mach (February 18, 1838 – February 19, 1916) was an Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher. He is the namesake for the "Mach number ...9 KB (1,301 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- Fukuzawa Yukichi 福澤 諭吉 (January 10, 1835 – February 3, 1901) was a Japanese author, educator, translator, entrepreneur, political ...17 KB (2,582 words) - 07:16, 15 April 2024
- Warren Hastings (December 6, 1732 - August 22, 1818) was the first and most well-known governor-general of British India, from 1773 to 1785. ...14 KB (2,155 words) - 22:56, 3 May 2023
- in form. Its foundation was the desire for self-knowledge and truth, untrammeled by the rigid bonds of any particular system. Hemsterhuis was ...8 KB (1,207 words) - 04:59, 9 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal Precognition (from the Latin praecognitio, or "to know beforehand ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 22:20, 30 November 2022
- Dmitri Mendeleev or Dmitriy Ivanovich Mendeleyev (birth unknown – death, 1907) was a Russian chemist. He is credited as being the primary creator ...13 KB (1,999 words) - 16:30, 29 January 2024
- Ralph Barton Perry (1876-1957) was an American educator and philosopher and a leader of the school of new realism in American pragmatic philosophy ...11 KB (1,682 words) - 00:28, 8 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Bezold Effect.svg|frame|right|Demonstration of the Bezold ...3 KB (477 words) - 03:30, 1 October 2023
- A percussion instrument can be any object which produces a sound by being struck, shaken, rubbed, and scraped with an implement, or by any other ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 00:31, 24 November 2022
- Nachman Kohen Krochmal (näkh'män krôkh'mäl) also called (by acronym) Ranak (born in Brody, Galicia, on February 17, 1785; died ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- Acoustics is a branch of physics that studies sound, or more precisely, mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids. It is concerned with ...7 KB (998 words) - 07:44, 14 June 2023
- Alexander Neckam (sometimes spelled "Nequam") (September 8, 1157 – 1217, Hertfordshire, England), was an English theologian, philosopher ...12 KB (1,817 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- Joseph Albo (יוסף אלבו) (c. 1380 – c. 1444) was a Jewish philosopher, a rabbi who lived in Spain during the fifteenth century, known ...13 KB (2,036 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- André-Marie Ampère (January 20 1775 – June 10 1836), was a French physicist who first demonstrated that two current-carrying wires exert ...10 KB (1,522 words) - 17:59, 27 July 2023
- Wang Fu-chih (王夫之) or Wang Fuzhi or Chuanshan (船山 Ch’uan-shan), also known as Wang Fu-zi or Wang Zi (1619 - 1692) was a Chinese philosopher ...11 KB (1,753 words) - 22:51, 3 May 2023
- The tabla (Urdu: تبلہ, Hindi: तबला, tubblaa) (or pronounced "Thabla" in Malayalam) is a popular Indian percussion instrument ...11 KB (1,728 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
- Jacques Maritain (November 18, 1882 – April 28, 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher. He converted to Catholicism and is the author of more ...18 KB (2,703 words) - 08:31, 18 March 2024
- of the Divine Feminine, the ultimate unity of self-knowledge and knowledge of the divine, the attainability of Christhood to all who attain gnosis, ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 23:06, 10 November 2022
- category:image wanted National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (U.S.) The National Digital Information Infrastructure ...13 KB (1,802 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- Vajra (Sanskrit: meaning thunderbolt and diamond) refers to an important sacred tool and ritual implement in Vajrayana Buddhism, Hinduism and ...7 KB (1,107 words) - 14:11, 3 May 2023
- Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paciolo) (1445 – 1517) was an Italian mathematician, educator, and Franciscan friar. He wrote one ...14 KB (2,158 words) - 04:17, 4 November 2022
- Ontology is a major branch of philosophy and a central part of metaphysics that studies questions of being or existence. The questions include ...15 KB (2,218 words) - 00:43, 18 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal In parapsychology, clairvoyance (meaning "clear-seeing" ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 07:21, 14 January 2023
