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- 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
- category:image wanted The Public Knowledge Project is a non-profit research initiative of the Faculty of EducationUniversity of British Columbia ...14 KB (1,916 words) - 23:35, 2 December 2022
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- 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
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Bjorn Borg Hollow Face.jpg|200px|thumb|right|This face of ...7 KB (1,100 words) - 16:10, 25 January 2023
- Psychologism is a philosophical position that attempts to reduce diverse forms of knowledge including concepts and principles of logic and mathematics ...7 KB (1,004 words) - 23:31, 2 December 2022
- 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
- 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
- Welcome to the [http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/ New World Encyclopedia], a project to promote true knowledge that leads to human happiness ...1 KB (162 words) - 15:02, 27 June 2021
- Methodic doubt is a systematic process of withholding assent regarding the truth or falsehood of all one’s beliefs until they have been demonstrated ...8 KB (1,232 words) - 16:27, 9 November 2022
- category:image wanted Anamnesis (Greek: αναμνησις recollection, reminiscence), or as it is also known, the theory of recollection, is ...15 KB (2,367 words) - 18:58, 26 July 2023
- category:image wanted In philosophy, the adjective transcendental and the noun transcendence convey three different but related meanings, all ...11 KB (1,539 words) - 00:39, 2 May 2023
- Nyaya (Sanskrit meaning "rational argument") is one of the six orthodox (astika) schools of Hindu philosophy that focuses on logic ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 01:23, 17 November 2022
- The Transcendental Ego (or its equivalent under various other formulations) refers to the self that must underlie all human thought and perception ...8 KB (1,206 words) - 00:40, 2 May 2023
- Empedocles (c. 490 B.C.E. – 430 B.C.E.) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a citizen of Agrigentum, a Greek colony in Sicily. ...8 KB (1,150 words) - 18:28, 13 February 2024
- The Megarian School of philosophy was founded c. 400 B.C.E. by Euclides of Megara, an early Hellenistic philosopher and one of the pupils of ...10 KB (1,527 words) - 04:09, 9 November 2022
- Eidetic reduction is a technique in Husserlian phenomenology, used to identify the essential components of the given phenomenon or experience ...9 KB (1,238 words) - 00:03, 13 February 2024
- 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
- In logic and mathematics, together with the allied branches of computer science, information theory, and statistics, a formal system is an idealized ...5 KB (794 words) - 06:34, 1 April 2024
- Esotericism refers to the doctrines or practices of esoteric knowledge, or the quality or state of being obscure. Esoteric knowledge is that ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- Michael Polanyi (born Polányi Mihály) (March 11, 1891 – February 22, 1976) was a Hungarian–British polymath whose thought and work extended ...17 KB (2,500 words) - 10:38, 10 March 2023
- Lifeworld (German: Lebenswelt) is a concept used in philosophy and some social sciences, meaning the world "as lived" prior to reflective ...11 KB (1,588 words) - 22:49, 25 October 2022
- category:image wanted The Public Knowledge Project is a non-profit research initiative of the Faculty of EducationUniversity of British Columbia ...14 KB (1,916 words) - 23:35, 2 December 2022
- 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
- German idealism was a philosophical movement in Germany in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It developed out of the work of ...23 KB (3,260 words) - 07:38, 24 January 2023
- Moritz Schlick (April 14, 1882 – June 22, 1936) was a German philosopher and the founding father of the Vienna Circle; he was also one of the ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 21:22, 9 November 2022
- The Tree of Life is a universal symbol found in many religious traditions. In the Hebrew Bible it is directly mentioned in the Book of Genesis ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 16:43, 2 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education The Fulbright Program including the Fulbright-Hays Program is a program of grants for ...11 KB (1,431 words) - 07:18, 15 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Educators and Educational theorists Parrish, Celestia Susannah Celestia (Celeste) Susannah Parrish ...10 KB (1,461 words) - 23:44, 3 December 2023
- Pashupata Shaivism was one of the main Shaivite schools. The Pashupatas (Sanskrit: Pāśupatas ) are the oldest named Shaivite group, originating ...10 KB (1,412 words) - 19:20, 23 June 2020
- Abhinavagupta (fl. c. 975 - 1025) was one of India's great literary critics and philosophers. He was a master of the Kula school of Shaivism ...14 KB (2,124 words) - 04:48, 14 June 2023
- George Edward Moore (November 4, 1873 – October 24, 1958), usually known as G. E. Moore, was a distinguished and influential English philosopher ...13 KB (2,040 words) - 07:29, 15 April 2024
- Jabir ibn Hayyan (c. eighth and early ninth centuries) was an Islamic thinker from the early medieval period to whom is ascribed authorship of ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 08:37, 13 March 2024
- Category:Public Anaximander (Greek: Αναξίμανδρος) (c. 609 – 547 b.c.e.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, the second of the ...7 KB (1,099 words) - 19:08, 26 July 2023
- Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet (pronounced "ot-LAY") (August 23, 1868 - December 10, 1944) was an Belgian author, entrepreneur, lawyer and ...22 KB (3,199 words) - 17:09, 26 March 2023
- Category:Public Suárez, Francisco [[Image:Franciscus_Suarez%2C_S.I._%281548-1617%29.jpg|thumb|250 px|right|Francisco Suárez]] Francisco Suárez ...12 KB (1,759 words) - 04:55, 9 April 2024
- Ethical intuitionism refers to a core of related moral theories, influential in Britain already in the 1700s, but coming to especial prominence ...20 KB (3,141 words) - 04:32, 22 March 2024
- Edward Caird (March 23, 1835 – November 1, 1908) was a British philosopher and leader of the Neo-Hegelian school in Britain. He was one of ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 18:22, 12 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Rawlinson, Henry [[Image:Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson. Photograph by Lock & ...10 KB (1,581 words) - 23:12, 8 February 2022
- Nicholas or Nicolaus of Autrecourt (in French: Nicholas d'Autrécourt) (c. 1295 – 1369) was a French medieval philosopher, theologian ...10 KB (1,617 words) - 23:32, 14 November 2022
- When we positively evaluate persons, actions, objects and situations we ascribe value to them. In most general terms, we call them good. Consequently ...15 KB (2,236 words) - 14:15, 3 May 2023
- Salomon ben Josua Maimon (1754, Sukowiborg/Niasviž, near Mirz, Polish Lithuania – November 22, 1800, Nieder-Siegersdorf, Niederschlesien) ...7 KB (1,116 words) - 01:01, 4 February 2023
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (January 25, 1743 – March 10, 1819) was a German philosopher who made his mark on philosophy by coining the term ...10 KB (1,513 words) - 11:04, 11 April 2024
- Lev Davidovich Landau (January 22, 1908 – April 1, 1968) was a prominent Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas ...7 KB (1,038 words) - 22:05, 25 October 2022
- Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (Николай Александрович Бердяев) (March 18, 1874 – March 24, 1948) was a Russian religious ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 04:06, 15 November 2022
- through enjoyment and suffering, self-knowledge arises which leads to the supreme bliss of liberation. Surendranath Dasgupta, A History of Indian ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 07:22, 5 October 2022
- Joseph Butler (May 18, 1692 – June 16, 1752) was an English bishop, theologian, apologist, moral philosopher and the author of Fifteen Sermons ...18 KB (2,788 words) - 07:19, 10 August 2022
- Abhidharma (Sanskrit) or Abhidhamma (Pāli) is a category of Buddhist scriptures, and the ideas contained in and based on them, that attempts ...14 KB (1,967 words) - 04:47, 14 June 2023
- During the Goryeo and Joseon dynasties of Korea, the royal courts conducted gwageo (or kwago), the national civil service examinations. Typically ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 06:03, 27 July 2023
- Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Brentano (January 16, 1838 – March 17, 1917) was a philosopher and psychologist. He contributed to a number ...12 KB (1,636 words) - 05:17, 9 April 2024
- Vaisheshika, also Vaisesika (Sanskrit: वैशॆषिक, IAST Vaiśeṣika), is one of the six Hindu schools of philosophy (orthodox Vedic ...19 KB (2,996 words) - 14:10, 3 May 2023
- Hinduism is an umbrella term for various religious traditions that originated in India, and now are practiced all around the world, though more ...19 KB (2,973 words) - 13:22, 22 January 2024
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- Nimbarka (Śrī Nimbārkācārya श्री निम्बार्काचार्य), was a Hindu philosopher and commentator, known ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 04:44, 15 November 2022
- Adelard of Bath (Latin: Adelardus Bathensis) (1116? - 1142?) was a twelfth century English scholar, best known for translating many important ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 05:50, 15 June 2023
- A space observatory is an artificial satellite equipped with instruments designed for the observation and study of objects and phenomena in outer ...8 KB (1,080 words) - 19:04, 7 February 2023
- Nicolai Hartmann (February 20, 1882 – October 9, 1950) was one of the dominant German philosophers during the first half of the twentieth century ...15 KB (2,188 words) - 23:34, 14 November 2022
- Antisthenes (c. 444 - 365 B.C.E.), is one of the founders of the Cynic School of philosophy. In his youth he studied rhetoric under Gorgias, ...8 KB (1,244 words) - 06:38, 31 July 2023
- Ananda (Chinese: 阿難, A Nan or 阿難陀, A Nan Tuo) was one of the ten great disciples and a devout attendant of the Buddha. He was renowned ...12 KB (1,953 words) - 18:58, 26 July 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
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Academic freedom is the freedom of teachers, students, and academic institutions to pursue ...23 KB (3,336 words) - 07:10, 14 June 2023
- An encyclopedia, encyclopaedia or (traditionally) encyclopædia, Owing to differences in American and British English orthographic conventions ...30 KB (4,429 words) - 15:48, 26 September 2023
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte (May 19, 1762 - January 27, 1814) was a German philosopher who gained his position in the history of Western philosophy ...16 KB (2,518 words) - 14:42, 1 August 2022
- 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
- The Banaue Rice Terraces (Hagdan-hagdang Palayan ng Banaue), 2000 year old terraces, had been carved into the mountains of Ifugao in the Philippines ...12 KB (1,820 words) - 03:26, 17 September 2023
- Saint Bonaventura also Bonaventure (born Giovanni di Fidanza) (1221 - July 15, 1274), was a Franciscan theologian, philospher, general of the ...20 KB (3,032 words) - 07:21, 17 November 2023
- 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
- 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
- Bhedābheda Vedānta (dvaitadvaita) is one of the several traditions of Vedānta philosophy in India. “Bhedābheda” is a Sanskrit word meaning ...15 KB (2,341 words) - 03:36, 1 October 2023
- William Whewell (May 24, 1794 - March 6, 1866) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian and historian of ...22 KB (3,347 words) - 20:45, 13 May 2023
- Albertus Magnus (1193/1206 – November 15, 1280), also known as Saint Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, was a Dominican friar who became ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 05:03, 17 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
- Social constructionism is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication theory. It holds that characteristics typically thought to be ...34 KB (4,832 words) - 00:18, 16 February 2022
- Edward Albert Shils (July 1, 1910 – January 23, 1995) was a Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology ...17 KB (2,459 words) - 23:52, 12 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations Times, The (London) The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 17:36, 30 April 2023
- Symeon the New Theologian (949 – 1022) was a Byzantine monk and mystic who became one of the most important spiritual influences in the Eastern ...8 KB (1,279 words) - 20:50, 17 April 2023
- category:image wanted A trade secret is a formula, practice, process, design, instrument, pattern, or compilation of information which is not ...18 KB (2,736 words) - 04:53, 1 May 2023
- Democritus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He was born at Abdera in Thrace and lived from around 460 B.C.E. to 370 B.C.E. Democritus developed ...8 KB (1,214 words) - 09:28, 28 January 2024
- Wang Chong (Wade-Giles: Wang Chong, 王充) (27 – 97 C.E.) was a Chinese philosopher during the Han Dynasty who developed a rational, secular ...10 KB (1,654 words) - 22:51, 3 May 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
- Ernst Cassirer (July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German-Jewish philosopher, educator, and prolific writer, and one of the leading exponents ...13 KB (1,820 words) - 19:34, 13 February 2024
- Jainism (pronounced jayn-izm), traditionally known as Jain Dharma, is a dharmic religion with its origins in the prehistory of India, still practiced ...28 KB (4,275 words) - 12:42, 6 November 2021
- Arthur Clive Heward Bell (September 16, 1881 – September 18, 1964) was an English Art critic, associated with the Bloomsbury Group, an English ...13 KB (1,975 words) - 22:10, 7 January 2024
- Category:Public John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) is regarded as one of the most important philosophers in American history. His ...20 KB (2,964 words) - 02:26, 9 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Geertz, Clifford Clifford James Geertz (August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was ...9 KB (1,225 words) - 22:06, 7 January 2024
- Dugald Stewart (November 22, 1753 - June 11, 1828), was a Scottish mathematician and philosopher, and a spokesman for the Scottish school of ...13 KB (2,001 words) - 17:19, 12 February 2024
- Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science and engineering that deals with intelligent behavior, learning, and adaptation in ...15 KB (2,061 words) - 17:40, 16 August 2023
- Alexander Bain (June 11, 1818 – September 18, 1903) was a Scottish philosopher, logician and educationalist who advanced the study of psychology ...14 KB (2,073 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- Al-Haji Sir Ahmadu Bello (June 12, 1910 - January 15, 1966) was a Nigerian politician, and was the first premier of the Northern Nigeria region ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- Edward Pococke (1604 - 1691) was an English Orientalist and biblical scholar. After graduating from the University of Oxford, Pockocke spent ...17 KB (2,663 words) - 15:59, 21 December 2021
- Industrial engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 22:36, 5 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:Tee-ball wity Peace Corps volunteer, Honduras.jpg|thumb|250 px|A volunteer teaches ...26 KB (3,814 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
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- category:image wanted Non-cognitivism is the meta-ethical view that moral utterances lack truth-value and do not assert propositions. A noncognitivist ...15 KB (2,197 words) - 02:38, 16 November 2022
- Saadia Ben Joseph Gaon (882-942 C.E.), (Hebrew:סעדיה בן יוסף גאון ) also known by his Arabic name Said al-Fayyumi, was a prominent ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 18:29, 22 December 2022
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- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Archaeologists Montet, Pierre Pierre Montet (June 27, 1885 – June 19 ...8 KB (1,137 words) - 05:24, 24 November 2022
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- Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (April 8, 1859 – April 26, 1938), philosopher, is known as the "father" of phenomenology, a major ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
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- Ashrama, in the Hindu religion (from Sanskrit āśramaḥ: meaning "penance, austerity"), [https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ashram ...8 KB (1,212 words) - 04:45, 18 August 2023
- Category:Public In a general sense, skepticism or scepticism (Greek: skeptomai, to look about, to consider) refers to any doctrine or way of thought ...31 KB (4,697 words) - 22:44, 29 January 2023
- *Self-knowledge. This is a crucial competency that includes a deep ... #039;s spirituality: awareness, self-knowledge, and personal transcendence. ...17 KB (2,422 words) - 08:00, 8 January 2024
- Ernest Nagel (November 16, 1901 – September 22, 1985) was an important twentieth-century philosopher of science. Born in Prague, he emigrated ...9 KB (1,352 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- Modern Philosophy refers to an especially vibrant period in Western European philosophy spanning the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Most ...25 KB (3,892 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:Musica 1488.jpg|thumb|250px|Early teaching methods]] Pedagogy, literally translated ...26 KB (3,614 words) - 17:11, 26 March 2023
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- Bhaskara (1114 – 1185), also known as Bhaskara II and Bhaskara Achārya ("Bhaskara the teacher"), was an Indian mathematician and ...20 KB (2,946 words) - 16:27, 21 January 2022
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- Advaita Vedanta (IAST Advaita Vedānta ; Sanskrit अद्वैत वेदान्त ; IPA /əd̪vait̪ə veːd̪ɑːnt̪ə/ ...32 KB (4,839 words) - 06:20, 15 June 2023
- The World Food Programme (WFP), the world's largest humanitarian agency, provides food to more than ninety million people in eighty countries ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 00:02, 18 May 2023
- Abduction, or inference to the best explanation, is a method of reasoning in which one chooses the hypothesis that would, if true, best explain ...14 KB (2,177 words) - 04:43, 14 June 2023
- The idea of a Geographical zone was first hypothesized by the ancient Greek scholar Aristotle in an attempt to classify the world's climatic ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 08:03, 23 January 2023
- Benedictus de Spinoza (November 24, 1632 – February 21, 1677), is considered one of the great rationalists of seventeenth-century philosophy ...28 KB (4,336 words) - 11:00, 20 September 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
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- Category:Psychologists Lashley, Karl Karl Spencer Lashley (June 7, 1890 – August 7, 1958) was an American psychologist and behaviorist, well ...10 KB (1,439 words) - 07:17, 5 October 2022
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- The principle of sufficient reason is the principle which is presupposed in philosophical arguments in general, which states that anything that ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 21:33, 26 February 2023
- Category:Linguists and lexicographers Category:Archaeologists Grotefend, Georg Friedrich Georg Friedrich Grotefend (June 9, 1775 – December ...9 KB (1,297 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
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- Sir Karl Raimund Popper (July 28, 1902 – September 17, 1994) was an Austrian and British philosopher and a professor at the London School of ...33 KB (4,906 words) - 07:20, 5 October 2022
- John Duns Scotus (c. 1266 – November 8, 1308) was one of the most important Franciscan theologians and the founder of Scotism, a special form ...15 KB (2,194 words) - 04:59, 3 August 2022
- Benedetto Croce (February 25, 1866 - November 20, 1952) was an Italian critic, idealist philosopher, and politician. He wrote on numerous topics ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
- Category:Education [[Image:BlgGym.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Modern indoor gymnasium with pull-down basketball hoops]] In most educational systems ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 05:07, 24 November 2022
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- The Upanishads (Devanagari: उपनिषद्, IAST: upaniṣad), often regarded as the “crown” or the “cream” of the Vedas ...28 KB (4,159 words) - 13:11, 3 May 2023
- Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov (1853 – 1900) was a Russian philosopher, poet, pamphleteer, and literary critic who played a significant role ...15 KB (2,232 words) - 20:48, 3 May 2023
- Johan Huizinga (December 7, 1872 – February 1, 1945) was a Dutch historian, a philosopher of culture, and one of the founders of modern cultural ...10 KB (1,498 words) - 06:44, 5 April 2024
- 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
- David Kellogg Lewis (September 28, 1941 – October 14, 2001) is considered by many philosophers and observers of philosophy to have been one ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 19:54, 23 August 2020
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- In philosophy the idea of choice usually arises in discussions of ethics. Choice can be defined as the rational process of deliberation directed ...11 KB (1,729 words) - 17:10, 10 December 2023
- Isaac Kaufmann Funk (Sept. 10, 1839 - April 4, 1912) was an American Lutheran minister, editor, lexicographer, publisher, and spelling reformer ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 19:40, 7 February 2023
- Borden Parker Bowne (1847-1910) was an American Christian philosopher and theologian in the Methodist tradition. In 1876 he became a professor ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 19:41, 20 November 2023
- Ibn Sina, Abu- ‘Ali- al-Husayn ibn ‘Abd Alla-h ibn Si-na- (Persian language|Persian Abu Ali Sinaابوعلى سينا or arabisized: أبو ...23 KB (3,644 words) - 07:16, 23 August 2023
