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- The meaning of the word truth extends from honesty, good faith, and sincerity in general, to agreement with fact or reality in particular. The ...66 KB (9,824 words) - 23:40, 15 January 2024
- Sojourner Truth (circa. 1797–1883) was a slave who became famous for being an American abolitionist. She was a self-proclaimed Evangelist, ...14 KB (2,065 words) - 22:05, 30 January 2023
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- the major operator – which is the truth-value for the entire expression ... number of logical interpretations (or truth-value assignments) that have ...9 KB (1,481 words) - 16:04, 23 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
- paradox, there is no way to give consistent truth-value assignments. To avoid the problem, he argued that, when one sentence refers to the truth-value ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 22:25, 25 October 2022
- such that their meanings determine the truth-value of a given sentence in ... falsity is assigned and, relative to the truth-value assignment, the truth ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022
- 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
- Formal logic is logic that deals with the form or logical structure of statements and propositions and the logical implications and relations ...7 KB (926 words) - 06:33, 1 April 2024
- category:image wanted In philosophy and logic, proposition refers to either (a) the content or meaning of a meaningful declarative sentence or ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022
- 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
- Alpha and Omega (Greek: Αλφα and Ω) is an appellation of God in the Book of Revelation (verses 1:8, 21:6, and 22:13). Its meaning is found ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- Category:Public Dōgen (also Dōgen Zenji 道元禅師; Dōgen Kigen 道元希玄, or Eihei Dōgen 永平道元) (January 19, 1200 - September ...13 KB (2,020 words) - 16:34, 29 January 2024
- An analytic proposition is one whose truth depends on relations of ideas or concepts, and not on what it says about the world or the way the ...9 KB (1,371 words) - 18:57, 26 July 2023
- Dukkha (Pāli दुक्ख; Sanskrit दुःख duḥkha ) is a central concept in Buddhism, which corresponds to a number of terms in English ...11 KB (1,613 words) - 18:37, 24 August 2020
- A contradiction is a logical incompatibility between two or more statements or propositions. It occurs when those statements or propositions ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 02:48, 8 January 2024
- The Dharmakāya (lit. Truth Body or Reality Body) is a central concept in Mahayana Buddhism forming part of the Trikaya doctrine that was first ...13 KB (2,027 words) - 10:18, 29 January 2024
- 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
- Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens are forms of valid inferences. By Modus Ponens, from a conditional statement and its antecedent, the consequent ...6 KB (1,057 words) - 19:28, 9 November 2022
- Sojourner Truth (circa. 1797–1883) was a slave who became famous for being an American abolitionist. She was a self-proclaimed Evangelist, ...14 KB (2,065 words) - 22:05, 30 January 2023
- 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
- The Trikaya doctrine (Sanskrit, meaning "Three Bodies" of the Buddha) refers to an important Mahayana Buddhist teaching about the nature ...13 KB (1,936 words) - 16:53, 2 May 2023
- to form a compound sentence. The truth-value of the compound is uniquely determined by the truth-values of the simpler sentences. The logical ...27 KB (3,934 words) - 20:59, 3 November 2022
- 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 (2,788 words) - 07:19, 10 August 2022
- 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
- Petrus Ramus, or Pierre de la Ramée (1515 - August 24, 1572), was a French humanist philosopher, logician, and educational reformer, known for ...18 KB (2,695 words) - 02:53, 24 November 2022
- Zerubbabel ( זְרֻבָּבֶל , Zərubbāvel; Greek: ζοροβαβελ, Zŏrobabel) was the leader of the first group of Jews, numbering ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:52, 13 June 2023
- Abū Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Farakh al-Fārābi (in Persian: محمد فارابی) or Abū Nasr al-Fārābi (in some sources, known as Muhammad ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 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
- The Jeju Uprising or Jeju Massacre (old spelling, "Cheju") refers to the rebellion and subsequent heavy government suppression on Jeju ...12 KB (1,861 words) - 04:44, 31 July 2022
- Synthesis (from ancient Greek σύνθεσις , σύν (with) and θεσις, placing) is commonly understood to be an integration of two or ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 01:58, 27 February 2023
- Category:Public {{Infobox_Philosopher | region = Western Philosophy | era = 20th-century philosophy | color = #B0C4DE | image_name = | ...30 KB (4,587 words) - 06:50, 13 June 2023
- Category:Image wanted George Carl Johann Antheil (June 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer and pianist who was ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 07:01, 18 April 2024
- In religious discourse, Inclusivism designates a particular theological position regarding the relationship between religions. This position ...21 KB (3,342 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- In traditional Aristotelian logic, deduction or deductive reasoning is inference in which the premises, if true, purport to guarantee the truth ...16 KB (2,607 words) - 09:05, 28 January 2024
- Moses Mendelssohn (September 6, 1729 – January 4, 1786) was a German Jewish Enlightenment philosopher whose advocacy of religious tolerance ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 16:58, 10 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law In law, defamation is the communication of a statement that makes a false claim, expressly ...26 KB (4,112 words) - 09:09, 28 January 2024
- Edward Irving was a noted Scottish clergyman generally regarded as the founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church. His followers were sometimes ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
- In Indian philosophy and religion, Samadhi (Sanskrit: समाधि, lit. "establish, make firm") is a term used in a variety of ...11 KB (1,661 words) - 02:04, 23 December 2022
- category:Image wanted Hellman, Lillian {{Infobox Writer | name = Lillian Hellman | image = | imagesize = | caption = ...14 KB (2,112 words) - 01:43, 26 October 2022
- Normative ethics is one of three main component areas of inquiry of philosophical ethics, the two others being meta-ethics and applied ethics ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 02:48, 16 November 2022
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (January 22, 1729 – February 15, 1781) was a German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic, was one of the ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 06:09, 31 December 2022
- Siger de Brabant (also Sigerus, Sighier, Sigieri, or Sygerius), (c. 1240 – 1280s), a thirteenth-century philosopher from the southern Low Countries ...10 KB (1,606 words) - 14:38, 27 January 2023
- The meaning of the word truth extends from honesty, good faith, and sincerity in general, to agreement with fact or reality in particular. The ...66 KB (9,824 words) - 23:40, 15 January 2024
- Dame Muriel Spark, (February 1, 1918 – April 13, 2006) was the greatest Scottish novelist of modern times; however, she ironically departed ...16 KB (2,563 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- The English word "axiology" (Greek: axios = worth; logos = "science") means "study of value." Although questions ...19 KB (2,855 words) - 07:20, 23 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
- An allegory (from Greek αλλος, allos, "other," and αγορευειν, agoreuein, "to speak in public") is a symbolic ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- William Godwin (March 3, 1756 – April 7, 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first ...22 KB (3,378 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Goldenlocks.jpg|thumb|250px|Twelfth century icon of Archangel Gabriel from Novgorod]] Gabriel (Hebrew: גַּבְרִיאֵל ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 07:35, 15 April 2024
- Desire has been the subject of religious and philosophical speculation in most cultures. The problem of desire has been a fundamental obstacle ...23 KB (3,709 words) - 09:57, 29 January 2024
- Mary Baker Eddy (July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) was the pioneer of a system of prayer-based healing that led her to found the Church of ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 16:00, 7 November 2022
- The First Epistle of John is a book of the Bible New Testament, the fourth of the "catholic" or general epistles. It was probably written ...12 KB (2,015 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- 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
- Entelechy is a philosophical concept stemming from Aristotle's metaphysics, and generally used to identify whatever it is that makes the ...6 KB (836 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- The Alien and Sedition Acts were four laws passed by the United States Congress in 1798 and signed into law by President John Adams, ostensibly ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 18:22, 21 July 2023
- The term interreligious dialogue (or interfaith dialogue) refers to positive interaction between people of different faith communities, mostly ...33 KB (5,242 words) - 16:49, 26 February 2022
- Samuel Clarke (October 11, 1675 – May 17, 1729) was an English philosopher who was noted for his pursuit of natural theology and philosophy ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 02:22, 23 December 2022
- Beauty is commonly defined as a characteristic present in objects, such as nature, art work, and a human person, that provides a perceptual experience ...19 KB (2,937 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Biography Byoir, Carl Carl Robert Byoir (June 24, 1888 – February 3, 1957 ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 00:54, 13 January 2023
- 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
- In Buddhist doctrine and metaphysics, the word skandha (Sanskrit: स्कान्धास) refers to the five "aggregate" elements ...34 KB (5,011 words) - 22:42, 29 January 2023
- category:Image wanted {{Infobox Non-profit | Non-profit_name = American Friends Service Committee | founded_date = 1917 | founder ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 03:35, 24 July 2023
- 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
- Eli (Hebrew: עֵלִי, "Ascent") was the high priest at Shiloh and one of the last Israelite judges before the beginning of the rule ...11 KB (1,806 words) - 00:35, 30 December 2021
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government of free ...23 KB (3,543 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- In Hinduism, a sampradaya (IAST sampradāya ) can be translated as "tradition" or a "religious system," although the word ...15 KB (2,058 words) - 02:15, 23 December 2022
- Ancient Western philosophy is marked by the formation and development of philosophy from around the sixth century B.C.E. to the sixth century ...29 KB (4,278 words) - 04:19, 31 January 2023
- 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
- Marcion of Sinope (ca. 110-160 C.E.) was a Christian theologian who was excommunicated by the early church at Rome as a heretic; Nevertheless ...17 KB (2,698 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- Vedanta (Devanagari: sa|वेदान्त , Vedānta ) is a school of philosophy within Hinduism dealing with the nature of reality, ...17 KB (2,516 words) - 14:43, 3 May 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
- Wonhyo (元曉, 원효; "Genngyo" in Japanese) (617 – 686), was one of the leading philosophers, writers and commentators of the ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 14:59, 17 April 2023
- In epistemology and the philosophy of perception, phenomenalism is the view that physical objects do not exist as things in themselves but only ...13 KB (2,023 words) - 02:56, 24 November 2022
- Antoine Arnauld, (1612 – August 8, 1694) was a French Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mathematician. Though his primary interests ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:41, 31 July 2023
- The Frankfurt school is a school of neo-Marxist social theory, social research, and philosophy. The grouping emerged at the Institute for Social ...23 KB (3,258 words) - 05:11, 9 April 2024
- The Platonic Academy originated as Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 385 B.C.E. in Akademeia, then a northern suburb six ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- 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
- Category:Public The Dialectic (Greek: διαλεκτική) is a line of thought, originating in ancient Greek philosophy, that stresses development ...34 KB (5,249 words) - 10:22, 29 January 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1974crop.jpg|thumb|300px|Solzhenitsyn in 1974]] Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Алекса́ндр ...15 KB (2,221 words) - 14:40, 18 July 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
- In the cosmology of Hinduism, the term Yuga (meaning: "age" or "epoch") refers to a specific division of time in the ongoing ...16 KB (2,576 words) - 21:36, 4 June 2023
- Josiah Royce (November 20, 1855 – September 14, 1916) was an American objective idealist philosopher. He was one of the most influential philosophers ...24 KB (3,666 words) - 19:58, 7 September 2022
- The Religious Society of Friends, whose members are known as Quakers or Friends, Various names used for the Friends movement include: Children ...39 KB (6,129 words) - 00:04, 15 April 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
- John Langshaw Austin (more commonly known as J.L Austin) (March 28, 1911 – February 8, 1960) was a philosopher of language and the main figure ...17 KB (2,638 words) - 06:11, 3 August 2022
- The Epistle to the Romans is one of the books of the New Testament canon attributed to Saint Paul the Apostle. Often referred to simply as Romans ...13 KB (2,049 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- William Congreve (January 24, 1670 – January 19, 1729) was an English playwright and poet. He was born at Bardsey near Leeds and attended school ...16 KB (2,529 words) - 15:55, 7 May 2023
- Vajrayana Buddhism (also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tantrayāna, Esoteric Buddhism, and the Diamond Vehicle) refers to a family of Buddhist lineages ...27 KB (4,057 words) - 22:19, 21 January 2024
- Saint Anselm of Canterbury (1033 – April 21, 1109) was an Italian medieval philosopher, theologian, and church official who held the office ...33 KB (5,289 words) - 05:15, 31 July 2023
- Freedom of speech is the ability to speak without censorship or limitation. Also called freedom of expression, it refers not only to verbal speech ...18 KB (2,627 words) - 10:48, 11 April 2024
- In philosophy, metaethics—sometimes known as analytic ethics—is the branch of ethics that seeks to understand the nature of ethical properties ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 16:19, 9 November 2022
- Emotivism is the non-cognitivist meta-ethical theory that ethical judgments are primarily expressions of one's own attitude and imperatives ...34 KB (5,141 words) - 18:27, 13 February 2024
- 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
- Richard Price (February 23, 1723 - April 19, 1791), was a Welsh moral and political philosopher, a Dissenting minister, and an expert on government ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 01:46, 14 December 2022
- Swami Dayananda Saraswati (स्वामी दयानन्द सरस्वती) (1824 - 1883) was an important Hindu religious ...15 KB (2,357 words) - 08:42, 28 January 2024
- 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
- Ecumenism (from the Greek οἰκουμένη meaning "the inhabited world") refers to initiatives aimed at greater religious co-operation ...23 KB (3,375 words) - 18:04, 12 February 2024
- A fallacy is an error in an argument. There are two main kinds of fallacies, corresponding to the distinction between formal and informal logic ...14 KB (2,254 words) - 00:35, 25 March 2024
- Fire occupies a unique place in nature. It is not matter itself, but it involves the reaction of different types of matter to generate energy ...16 KB (2,510 words) - 19:51, 26 March 2024
- Mount Emei ( c=峨嵋山|p=Éméi Shān|w=O2-mei2 Shan1 , literally towering Eyebrow Mountain) is located in Sichuan province, Western China. ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 17:05, 10 November 2022
- Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864–December 31, 1936) was a multi-faceted Spanish writer, an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright ...16 KB (2,413 words) - 17:47, 9 November 2022
- 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
- Samizdat ( самиздат , Bibuła , самиздат ) was the clandestine copying and distribution of government-suppressed literature or ...12 KB (1,682 words) - 02:12, 23 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Golem and Loew.jpg|200px|Rabbi Loew and golem.|thumb]] ...13 KB (2,171 words) - 11:55, 24 January 2023
- Nirvāṇa (Pali: Nibbāna, meaning "extinction" or "blowing out" of the triple fires of greed, anger, and delusion), is ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 05:02, 15 November 2022
- Richard Mervyn Hare (March 21, 1919 – January 29, 2002) was an English moral philosopher who held the post of White's Professor of Moral ...14 KB (2,112 words) - 16:05, 7 December 2022
- 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
- Alexandre Kojève (Александр Владимирович Кожевников, Aleksandr Vladimirovič Koževnikov) (April 28, 1902 – ...23 KB (3,422 words) - 06:36, 20 July 2023
- Shema Yisrael (or Sh'ma Yisroel or just Shema) (Hebrew: שמע ישראל; "Hear, [O] Israel") refers to the most important prayer ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 13:27, 27 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Biography Outcault, Richard Felton [[Image:Richard Felton Outcault.jpg|thumb ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 20:15, 8 December 2022
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Telugu:సర్వేపల్లి రాధాకృష్ణ, Tamil:சர்வபள்ளி ராதாகிரு ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 16:20, 27 July 2021
- Dziga Vertov (Russian: Дзига Вертов), (January 2, 1896 – February 12, 1954) was a Russian pioneer documentary film and newsreel ...19 KB (2,880 words) - 15:49, 10 October 2020
- 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
- Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (April 23, 1858 – October 4, 1947) was a German physicist who is widely regarded as one of the most significant ...30 KB (4,449 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- Johann Georg Hamann (August 27, 1730 – June 21, 1788), also known by the epithet Magus of the North, was a philosopher of the German Enlightenment ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 14:40, 1 August 2022
- Pontius Pilate ( ˈpɔnʧəs ˈpaɪleɪt ; Latin: Pontius Pilatus, Greek: Πόντιος Πιλάτος ) was the governor of the Roman Iudaea ...17 KB (2,703 words) - 20:06, 9 April 2023
- 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
- Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (January 15, 1791 – January 21, 1872) was an Austrian dramatist whose tragedies were belatedly recognized as some ...15 KB (2,376 words) - 05:19, 9 April 2024
- Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875), often called "America's foremost revivalist," was a major leader of the Second Great Awakening ...24 KB (3,726 words) - 19:08, 4 December 2023
- Ubuntu ùbúntú , is a traditional African concept. The word ubuntu comes from the Zulu and Xhola languages, and can be roughly translated as ...14 KB (2,195 words) - 01:24, 3 May 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
- Paul Ricœur (February 27, 1913 – May 20, 2005) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic ...18 KB (2,604 words) - 01:31, 23 November 2022
- 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
- Belief is the state of mind in which an individual is convinced of the truth or validity of a proposition or premise regardless of whether they ...14 KB (2,132 words) - 08:53, 27 September 2023
- 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
- Eugène Ionesco, born Eugen Ionescu, (November 26, 1909 – March 29, 1994) was a French-Romanian playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost ...15 KB (2,272 words) - 04:19, 23 March 2024
- The Dominican Order, originally known as the Order of Preachers, is a Catholic religious order created by Saint Dominic in the early thirteenth ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 17:16, 30 January 2024
- Niels (Henrik David) Bohr (October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding ...21 KB (3,171 words) - 09:45, 11 March 2023
- Philo (20 B.C.E. – 50 C.E.), known also as Philo of Alexandria and as Philo Judaeus, was a Hellenized Jewish philosopher who synthesized Stoic ...29 KB (4,517 words) - 04:00, 24 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
- Reductio ad absurdum, Latin for "reduction to the absurd," traceable back to the Greek ἡ εις άτοπον απαγωγη (hê ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 02:58, 8 December 2022
- Critical theory is a term applied to a wide variety of critical approaches Western political society and culture. It emerged from the Western ...43 KB (6,032 words) - 06:26, 11 January 2024
- In philosophy, essence is the attribute (or set of attributes) that makes a thing be what it fundamentally is. It is often called the “nature” ...7 KB (1,146 words) - 21:31, 20 March 2024
- Aum Shinrikyo, also known as Aleph, is a Japanese New Religious Movement which gained international notoriety in 1995, when it carried out a ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 17:50, 22 August 2023
- Pragmatism is a philosophical movement that originated with Charles Sanders Peirce (1839 – 1914) (who first stated the pragmatic maxim) and ...38 KB (5,567 words) - 22:10, 30 November 2022
- Saint Brendan of Clonfert, or Bréanainn of Clonfert (c. 484 – c. 577 C.E.), also known as "the Navigator," "the Voyager," ...12 KB (1,898 words) - 22:58, 20 November 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
- Category:Public [[Image:Illustrerad Verldshistoria band I Ill 107.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Thales]] Thales (in Greek: Θαλης) of Miletus (ca ...7 KB (978 words) - 15:05, 30 April 2023
- Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (1861 - 1916) was a French physicist, philosopher and historian of science. His most influential work in the philosophy ...15 KB (2,236 words) - 05:22, 24 November 2022
- Émile Zola (April 2, 1840 – September 29, 1902) was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism ...16 KB (2,483 words) - 18:12, 13 February 2024
- Frederick Earl Sontag (October 2, 1924 – June 14, 2009) was an American scholar, a professor of philosophy and prolific author. He taught at ...15 KB (2,047 words) - 10:33, 11 April 2024
- William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878) was an American poet and newspaper editor who achieved literary fame at age 17, after ...13 KB (1,996 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
- Shingon Buddhism (眞言, 真言 "true words") is a major school of Japanese Buddhism, and is the other branch, besides Tibetan Buddhism ...22 KB (3,219 words) - 14:14, 27 January 2023
- Umberto Eco (January 5, 1932 - February 19, 2016) was an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known ...23 KB (3,384 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- Justin Martyr (also Justin the Martyr, Justin of Caesarea, Justin the Philosopher) (ca. 100–165) was an early Christian apologist and saint ...34 KB (5,421 words) - 21:24, 4 October 2022
- Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an African-American scholar and writer who is considered to be one of the most important ...13 KB (2,109 words) - 00:29, 8 December 2022
- Category:Public Xenophanes of Colophon (c. 570 B.C.E.- c. 478 B.C.E.) was a pre-Socratic philosopher, poet, and social and religious critic. Xenophanes ...7 KB (1,024 words) - 14:28, 20 May 2023
- The term Pāramitā or Pāramī (Sanskrit and Pāli respectively) means "Perfect" or "Perfection." In Buddhism, the Paramitas ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 07:48, 18 November 2022
- category:Image wanted Girard, Rene [[File:René Girard.jpg|thumb|200px|René Girard during a colloquium in Paris, 2007]] René Girard (December ...32 KB (4,801 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- Mawlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207 - 1273 C.E.) (مولانا جلال الدین محمد رومی), known to the English-speaking ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 16:32, 12 December 2023
- Pope Leo I, or Leo the Great, was pope of the Roman Catholic Church from September 29, 440 to November 10, 461. He was a Roman aristocrat and ...15 KB (2,335 words) - 20:05, 25 October 2022
- Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (also Thomas of Aquin, or Aquino; c. 1225 – March 7, 1274) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest in the Order of ...35 KB (5,231 words) - 18:38, 30 April 2023
- Julia Margaret Cameron (June 11, 1815 – January 26, 1879) was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 21:09, 4 October 2022
- An archangel is a superior or higher-ranking angel found in a number of religious traditions, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Zoroastrianism ...17 KB (2,515 words) - 02:14, 9 January 2023
