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- Metalogic is a study of formal languages of logic from both syntactic and semantic perspectives. Formal languages consist of vocabulary (constants ...14 KB (2,296 words) - 16:20, 9 November 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Sermon in the Deer Park depicted at Wat Chedi Liem-KayEss-1.jpeg|thumb|right|225px|Painting of the Buddha's first ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- Category:Public The terms a priori (Latin; “from former”) and a posteriori (Latin; “from later”) refer primarily to species of propositional ...11 KB (1,601 words) - 07:08, 13 June 2023
- Eclecticism (from Greek eklektikos, “selective,” or “choosing the best”), is a conceptual approach that does not hold rigidly to a single ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
- The concept of pluralism in philosophy indicates the belief that reality consists of many different things or kinds of things. In this sense ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- Sextus Empiricus (lived during the second or possibly the third century C.E.), was a physician and philosopher whose philosophical writing is ...11 KB (1,515 words) - 10:12, 26 January 2023
- The term sophists originally meant “wise men” in Ancient Greece. By the fifth century B.C.E., the term designated a profession in or a group ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 01:17, 4 February 2023
- Averroism is the term applied to two philosophical trends originating among European scholastics in the late thirteenth century, after the introduction ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- 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
- Christian August Crusius (January 10, 1715 – October 18, 1775) was a German philosopher and theologian. He enjoyed a considerable reputation ...10 KB (1,478 words) - 17:58, 10 December 2023
- Category:Image wanted Philippe de Vitry (October 31, 1291 – June 9, 1361) was a French composer, music theorist and poet. He was an accomplished ...5 KB (748 words) - 03:56, 24 November 2022
- Fuzzy logic, when construed in a wider sense, is the theory of fuzzy sets. The concept of fuzzy sets provides a convenient way to represent various ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 07:24, 15 April 2024
- The Verifiability theory of meaning was put forth in the early twentieth century by a group of logical positivists. The verifiability theory ...8 KB (1,167 words) - 18:01, 3 May 2023
- A modal logic was originally designed to describe the logical relations of modal notions. The list of the notions includes metaphysical modalities ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 19:24, 9 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
- Mimesis (μίμησις from μιμεîσθαι) in its simplest context means "imitation" or "representation" in Greek. ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (November 23, 1919 – February 13, 2006) was an English philosopher, and a leading member of the group of twentieth ...11 KB (1,580 words) - 01:34, 24 November 2022
- 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
- Arnold Geulincx (1624 - 1669), sometimes known by the pseudonym Philaretus, was a Flemish philosopher and logician. Known primarily for "occasionalism ...8 KB (1,216 words) - 03:53, 15 August 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
- Logical positivism (later referred to as logical empiricism, rational empiricism, and also neo-positivism) is a philosophy that combines positivism ...13 KB (1,922 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- Doubt, a status between belief and disbelief, involves uncertainty, distrust, or lack of sureness of an alleged fact, an action, motive, or a ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- Lying is telling or writing or otherwise promulgating a false statement or claim with intent to deceive. Here we will be concerned only with ...19 KB (3,123 words) - 03:12, 5 November 2022
- Satyagraha (Sanskrit, meaning "Truth-force") was a term coined by Mahatma Gandhi to express his philosophy that non-violence is a power ...17 KB (2,735 words) - 22:38, 3 April 2020
- Category:Public [[Image:Albrecht Dürer Betende Hände.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Faith in something greater is an important theme in all the world ...13 KB (1,952 words) - 00:32, 25 March 2024
- Won Buddhism, Wonbulgyo, a compound of the Korean won (circle) and bulgyo (Buddhism), means literally Circular Buddhism, or Consummate Buddhism ...8 KB (1,141 words) - 14:59, 17 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations [[Image:Pravda Adolf Hitler.jpg|thumb|right|]] Pravda (Правда, "The ...17 KB (2,565 words) - 00:32, 12 April 2023
- Natural theology is a branch of theology, which attempts to establish truths by reason without recourse to revelation. The division of theology ...12 KB (1,729 words) - 15:21, 11 November 2022
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, also known as pseudo-Denys, is the name scholars have given to an anonymous theologian and philosopher of the ...7 KB (1,028 words) - 08:24, 2 December 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 Generally, a fact is defined as something that is true, something that can be verified according to an established standard ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- " It could also be said that the truth-value of the proposition will be only given in the future, that is, when the future unfolds. Thus ...17 KB (2,681 words) - 15:24, 29 January 2024
- 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
- posits truth as relative—i.e. epistemological/truth-value relativism. More specifically, it is only strong forms of epistemological relativism that ...25 KB (3,816 words) - 03:07, 8 December 2022
- Omniscience is the capacity to know everything infinitely, or at least everything that can be known about life, the universe, thoughts, feelings ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Perjury is the act of lying or making verifiably false statements on a material matter under ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
- Authenticity is a philosophical concept that denotes the genuine, original, true state of human existence. The concept arises from the insights ...14 KB (2,048 words) - 19:15, 22 August 2023
- The term Indian philosophy may refer to any of several traditions of philosophical thought that originated in India. Indian philosophy has a ...22 KB (3,133 words) - 22:02, 4 February 2023
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Category:Biography Irwin, Elisabeth Antoinette Elisabeth Antoinette Irwin (August 29, 1880 – October ...7 KB (1,084 words) - 16:14, 13 February 2024
- 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
- category:image wanted Brunner, Emil Emil Brunner (December 23, 1889 – April 6, 1966) was an eminent and highly influential Swiss theologian ...12 KB (1,746 words) - 08:14, 31 December 2020
- Valentinus (ca. 100–ca. 160) was the best known and, for a time, most successful theologian in early Christian Gnosticism. In his Alexandrian ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 14:13, 3 May 2023
- The label moral relativism refers to at least three distinct claims relating to the diversity of moral principles, values, and practices across ...30 KB (4,814 words) - 21:19, 9 November 2022
- The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of early Christian gnostic texts discovered near the Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945. Contained ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 23:06, 10 November 2022
- In Christian theology, fideism is the position that reason is irrelevant to religious faith. Fideism can be both a response to anti-religious ...15 KB (2,241 words) - 17:33, 26 March 2024
- 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
- The Dialogue of the Saviour is one of the ancient works of the New Testament apocrypha that was unearthed among the texts of the Nag Hammadi ...17 KB (2,741 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
- Knowledge is evaluated and organized information with implications of being true, justified, and believed. Knowledge is often distinguished from ...16 KB (2,254 words) - 16:10, 15 October 2020
- 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
- Ramakrishna (1836 – 1886) is one of the most famous Hindu mystics of modern India, who claimed that all religions are legitimate paths to experiencing ...11 KB (1,615 words) - 15:51, 18 June 2022
- A fact is an actual state of the world. For example, it is a fact that Mount Everest is taller than Mount Kilimanjaro. A value is something good ...14 KB (2,156 words) - 12:33, 21 January 2023
- * Truth-value semantics ===Computer science=== * Axiomatic semantics * Denotational semantics * Formal semantics of programming languages ...13 KB (1,868 words) - 17:49, 25 January 2023
- Susanne Langer (December 20, 1895 - July 17, 1985) née Susanne Katherina Knauth, was an American philosopher of art, a writer, and an educator ...17 KB (2,624 words) - 00:28, 27 February 2023
- 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
- known as an automorphism). If one identifies the truth-value True with the domain set and the truth-value False with the empty set, then the following ...27 KB (4,019 words) - 20:34, 20 July 2023
- Nicolas Malebranche (August 6, 1638 - October 13, 1715) was a French philosopher of the Cartesian school. His philosophy was heavily influenced ...18 KB (2,772 words) - 23:36, 14 November 2022
- Pierre Charron (1541 - 1603) was a French philosopher and Roman Catholic theologian who helped to shape the new thought of the late sixteenth ...13 KB (1,975 words) - 05:20, 24 November 2022
- 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
- The Ramakrishna Mission ( রামকৃষ্ণ মিশন ) is an association founded by Sri Ramakrishna's chief disciple and religious ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 00:33, 8 December 2022
- Advaita Vedanta (IAST Advaita Vedānta ; Sanskrit अद्वैत वेदान्त ; əd̪vait̪ə veːd̪ɑːnt̪ə ), a sub-school of ...19 KB (2,943 words) - 06:21, 15 June 2023
- Perspectivism is the philosophical position that one's access to the world through perception, experience, and reason is possible only through ...17 KB (2,483 words) - 01:01, 24 November 2022
- An argument is an attempt to demonstrate the truth of an assertion called a conclusion, based on the truth of a set of assertions called premises ...9 KB (1,514 words) - 06:26, 12 August 2023
- against determinism, and discussions of the truth-value of statements about the future and human freedom. His system for classifying the ethical values ...11 KB (1,736 words) - 00:29, 29 November 2023
- Syādvāda (Devanagari: स्यादवाद meaning "Could-be-ism") is the Jain doctrine of epistemological relativism underpinning ...19 KB (2,999 words) - 00:56, 21 April 2023
- The concept of a duty is the concept of a requirement. If one has a duty to (e.g.) pay the rent, then one ought to pay the rent. The concept ...19 KB (3,122 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
- the meta-ethical view that moral utterances lack truth-value and do not assert propositions. A noncognitivist denies the cognitivist claim that "moral ...15 KB (2,197 words) - 02:38, 16 November 2022
- Tendai (天台宗; Tendai-shū) is a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism, originating from the Chinese Tiantai (T'ien-t'ai) or Lotus ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 05:41, 27 February 2023
- Anthony Collins (June 21, 1676 - December 13, 1729) was an English philosopher, theologian, politician, and a provocative proponent of Deism ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 05:24, 31 July 2023
- Hazrat Inayat Khan (July 5, 1882 – February 5, 1927) was the founder of Universal Sufism and the Sufi Order International. He initially came ...13 KB (2,071 words) - 19:28, 6 September 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Socrates.png|thumb|right|Socrates]] Socrates (ca. 469 – 399 B.C.E.) (Greek Σωκράτης Sōkrátēs) was an ancient ...30 KB (4,718 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate that is the setting of the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four ...28 KB (3,844 words) - 23:24, 14 November 2022
- Línjì Yìxuán (臨済義玄; Wade-Giles: Lin-chi I-hsüan; Japanese: Rinzai Gigen) (?–866) was the founder of the Linji school of Chán ...11 KB (1,835 words) - 04:11, 29 October 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
- Determinism is the philosophical view that past events and the laws of nature fix or set future events. The interest of determinism in analytic ...14 KB (2,077 words) - 10:05, 29 January 2024
- Inference is the act or process of deriving a conclusion based on what one already knows or on what one assumes. The statement(s) given as evidence ...20 KB (3,113 words) - 22:38, 5 February 2023
- Being and existence in philosophy are related and somewhat overlapping with respect to their meanings. Classical Greek had no independent word ...25 KB (3,698 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
- Chrysippus of Soli (c. 280 B.C.E. - c. 207 B.C.E.) is considered to be a co-founder of Stoicism, one of the most influential schools of Hellenistic ...9 KB (1,399 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- For Naturalism in literature and art, see Naturalism (literature). Naturalism designates any of several philosophical stances that make the assumption ...17 KB (2,419 words) - 15:22, 11 November 2022
- Ernst Troeltsch (February 17, 1865 – February 1, 1923) was a German Protestant theologian and writer on philosophy of religion and philosophy ...9 KB (1,343 words) - 21:23, 20 March 2024
- Anekāntavāda (Devanagari: अनेकान्तवाद), meaning "non-absolutism," is one of the basic principles of Jainism ...30 KB (4,673 words) - 18:01, 27 July 2023
- A concept is a constituent of thought or generalized idea, that designates common properties and characteristics abstracted from a number of ...20 KB (3,052 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- Category:Image wanted Otto Neurath (December 10, 1882 – December 22, 1945) was an Austrian sociologist and philosopher of science and one of ...12 KB (1,753 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
- François Hemsterhuis (December 27, 1721 – July 7, 1790), was a Dutch philosopher on aesthetics and moral philosophy. Sometimes referred to ...8 KB (1,207 words) - 04:59, 9 April 2024
- Category:Image wanted Category:Media Professionals Category:Economists Category:Biography Barron, Clarence W. Clarence Walker Barron (July 2, ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 10:25, 19 December 2023
- Antonio Rosmini-Serbati (March 25, 1797 - July 1, 1855) was an Italian philosopher and theologian who set out to re-define the balance between ...24 KB (3,716 words) - 05:44, 11 August 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
- 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
- Nāgārjuna (c. 150 – 250 C.E.) was arguably the most influential Indian Buddhist thinker after Gautama Buddha, who founded the Madhyamaka ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 23:10, 10 November 2022
- Walter Lippmann (September 23, 1889 - December 14, 1974) was an influential American writer, journalist, and political commentator. Like many ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 22:27, 3 May 2023
- A paradox was originally something that was contrary to received or common opinion. The term paradox comes from the Greek para ("contrary ...14 KB (2,272 words) - 07:43, 18 November 2022
- Vairocana is one of many Buddhas revered by particular sects of Sino-Japanese Buddhism, especially among the Chinese school of Hua-Yen, and the ...10 KB (1,419 words) - 14:09, 3 May 2023
- Joseph Butler (May 18, 1692 – June 16, 1752) was an English bishop, theologian, apologist, moral philosopher and the author of Fifteen Sermons ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 17:47, 6 May 2024
- 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:Public [[File:Om symbol.svg.png|thumb|right|250px|Om/Aum in Devanagari script]] Aum ([[File:Om symbol.svg.png|16px|]]), also rendered ...13 KB (2,123 words) - 07:07, 13 June 2023
- Ahura Mazda is the supreme divinity of the Zoroastrian faith, which is called by its adherents Mazdayasna (meaning "the worship of Mazda ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 16:30, 30 December 2021
- Category:Sociologists Mannheim, Karl Karl Mannheim (March 27, 1893 – January 9, 1947) was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding ...10 KB (1,422 words) - 07:18, 5 October 2022
- Category:Public {{Infobox_Philosopher | region = Western Philosophy and Psychology | era = Nineteenth/Twentieth-century philosophy | ...19 KB (2,743 words) - 00:33, 21 May 2023
- The Divine Principle or Exposition of the Divine Principle (in Korean, Wolli Kangron, hangul: 원리강론, hanja: 原理講論) is the main ...29 KB (4,573 words) - 20:52, 9 February 2024
- Existentialism is a philosophical movement that arose in the twentieth century. It includes a number of thinkers who emphasize common themes ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 23:54, 24 March 2024
- Bernard Arthur Owen Williams (September 21, 1929 – June 10, 2003) was a British philosopher, widely cited as the most important British moral ...30 KB (4,357 words) - 20:51, 23 January 2024
