Search results for "Philosophy of perception" - New World Encyclopedia
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- In the philosophy of perception, critical realism is the theory that ... Critical realism refers to several schools of thought. These include ...13 KB (1,784 words) - 06:25, 11 January 2024
- synonymous with or an essential attribute of God, and it characterizes other ... elaborate on the absolute, but, the idea of an ultimate principle drove ...15 KB (2,179 words) - 06:35, 14 June 2023
- and conversations, over an important circle of academics in Cambridge, Massachusetts ... After reading Darwin's Origin of Species (published in 1859) ...12 KB (1,761 words) - 00:45, 5 December 2023
- band that appears immediately to the left of the gradient.]] Mach bands are an optical illusion where a band of gradients will ...4 KB (546 words) - 04:49, 5 November 2022
- Cartesianism is the school of philosophy based on the fundamental ... to the contemporary debate in the philosophy of perception between so-called ...11 KB (1,731 words) - 00:41, 29 November 2023
- as such. It only exists in the mind of those who perceive it and ultimately ... While all forms of idealism stress the reality of the mind over that ...8 KB (1,190 words) - 21:10, 26 February 2023
- everything is interconnected in a chain of co-becoming and in a state ... Widely misconceived as a doctrine of nihilism, the teaching on the ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 23:46, 26 February 2023
- an English philosopher, and a leading member of the group of twentieth century ... Finchley, North London, by his parents, both of whom were teachers. He was ...11 KB (1,580 words) - 01:34, 24 November 2022
- Substance, in philosophy, has to do with the question or problem of ... The origin of the term goes back to the ancient Greeks. The English ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 21:25, 26 February 2023
- that must underlie all human thought and perception, even though nothing more ... The notion of an Ego or self that precedes all experiences and makes ...8 KB (1,206 words) - 00:40, 2 May 2023
- who founded the field known as the history of ideas. As a professor of philosophy ... that material objects exist independently of human perception of them, and ...10 KB (1,444 words) - 17:35, 16 August 2023
- wrote in, many areas: Epistemology, history of philosophy, moral philosophy ... Broad was born at Harlesden, a suburb of London, as the only child ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 19:14, 24 November 2023
- who was a leading influence in analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth ... where he developed an interest in the philosophy of mathematics. Russell ...9 KB (1,265 words) - 00:54, 9 November 2022
- Nicholas or Nicolaus of Autrecourt (in French: Nicholas d'Autrécourt ... false teachings on the allegation that 66 of his propositions, culled from ...10 KB (1,617 words) - 23:32, 14 November 2022
- Max Wertheimer (April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was one of the ... Starting with the observation of apparent movement, the phi phenomenon ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 01:04, 9 November 2022
- Democritus identified the real existence of the cosmos with infinite numbers ... shape, and size. The qualitative diversity of the world is reduced to and ...8 KB (1,214 words) - 09:28, 28 January 2024
- The Cyrenaics were one of the two earliest Socratic schools of philosophy ... Several of Aristippus’ followers modified this doctrine by distinguishing ...9 KB (1,293 words) - 06:55, 12 January 2024
- educator, and prolific writer, and one of the leading exponents of neo ... Cassirer played a mediating role between the two major traditions ...13 KB (1,820 words) - 19:34, 13 February 2024
- dominant rationalist Leibnizian-Wolffian philosophy (this label, though dating ... on Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy. Sadly, there are no full ...10 KB (1,478 words) - 17:58, 10 December 2023
- and a spokesman for the Scottish school of Common Sense philosophy, founded ... Stewart and Reid insisted that human knowledge of particular causes ...13 KB (2,001 words) - 17:19, 12 February 2024
