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  • category:image wanted Generally, a fact is defined as something that is true, something that can be verified according to an established standard ...
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  • " 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 ...
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  • Giambattista Vico or Giovanni Battista Vico (1668 – 1744) was an Italian philosopher, historian, and jurist. Vico presented his philosophical ...
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  • posits truth as relative—i.e. epistemological/truth-value relativism. More specifically, it is only strong forms of epistemological relativism that ...
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  • Omniscience is the capacity to know everything infinitely, or at least everything that can be known about life, the universe, thoughts, feelings ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Perjury is the act of lying or making verifiably false statements on a material matter under ...
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  • Authenticity is a philosophical concept that denotes the genuine, original, true state of human existence. The concept arises from the insights ...
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  • The term Indian philosophy may refer to any of several traditions of philosophical thought that originated in India. Indian philosophy has a ...
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  • Category:Educators and Educational theorists Category:Biography Irwin, Elisabeth Antoinette Elisabeth Antoinette Irwin (August 29, 1880 – October ...
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  • Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 – 215) (Titus Flavius Clemens) was an early Christian philosopher and one of the most distinguished teachers ...
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  • category:image wanted Brunner, Emil Emil Brunner (December 23, 1889 – April 6, 1966) was an eminent and highly influential Swiss theologian ...
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  • Valentinus (ca. 100–ca. 160) was the best known and, for a time, most successful theologian in early Christian Gnosticism. In his Alexandrian ...
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  • The label moral relativism refers to at least three distinct claims relating to the diversity of moral principles, values, and practices across ...
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  • The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of early Christian gnostic texts discovered near the Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945. Contained ...
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  • In Christian theology, fideism is the position that reason is irrelevant to religious faith. Fideism can be both a response to anti-religious ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Knowledge is evaluated and organized information with implications of being true, justified, and believed. Knowledge is often distinguished from ...
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  • The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia naturalis), has several applications, according to its historical ...
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  • Ramakrishna (1836 – 1886) is one of the most famous Hindu mystics of modern India, who claimed that all religions are legitimate paths to experiencing ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • * Truth-value semantics ===Computer science=== * Axiomatic semantics * Denotational semantics * Formal semantics of programming languages ...
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  • Susanne Langer (December 20, 1895 - July 17, 1985) née Susanne Katherina Knauth, was an American philosopher of art, a writer, and an educator ...
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  • category:image wanted Metanarrative or grand narrative or mater narrative is a term developed by Jean-François Lyotard to mean a theory that ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Nicolas Malebranche (August 6, 1638 - October 13, 1715) was a French philosopher of the Cartesian school. His philosophy was heavily influenced ...
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  • Pierre Charron (1541 - 1603) was a French philosopher and Roman Catholic theologian who helped to shape the new thought of the late sixteenth ...
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  • Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126 – December 10, 1198) was an Andalusian-Arab philosopher and physician, a master of philosophy and Islamic law, mathematics ...
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  • The Ramakrishna Mission ( রামকৃষ্ণ মিশন ) is an association founded by Sri Ramakrishna's chief disciple and religious ...
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  • Advaita Vedanta (IAST Advaita Vedānta ; Sanskrit अद्वैत वेदान्त ; əd̪vait̪ə veːd̪ɑːnt̪ə ), a sub-school of ...
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  • Perspectivism is the philosophical position that one's access to the world through perception, experience, and reason is possible only through ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • against determinism, and discussions of the truth-value of statements about the future and human freedom. His system for classifying the ethical values ...
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  • Syādvāda (Devanagari: स्यादवाद meaning "Could-be-ism") is the Jain doctrine of epistemological relativism underpinning ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • the meta-ethical view that moral utterances lack truth-value and do not assert propositions. A noncognitivist denies the cognitivist claim that "moral ...
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  • Tendai (天台宗; Tendai-shū) is a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism, originating from the Chinese Tiantai (T'ien-t'ai) or Lotus ...
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  • Anthony Collins (June 21, 1676 - December 13, 1729) was an English philosopher, theologian, politician, and a provocative proponent of Deism ...
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  • Hazrat Inayat Khan (July 5, 1882 – February 5, 1927) was the founder of Universal Sufism and the Sufi Order International. He initially came ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Socrates.png|thumb|right|Socrates]] Socrates (ca. 469 – 399 B.C.E.) (Greek Σωκράτης Sōkrátēs) was an ancient ...
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  • Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate that is the setting of the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Determinism is the philosophical view that past events and the laws of nature fix or set future events. The interest of determinism in analytic ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Being and existence in philosophy are related and somewhat overlapping with respect to their meanings. Classical Greek had no independent word ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • For Naturalism in literature and art, see Naturalism (literature). Naturalism designates any of several philosophical stances that make the assumption ...
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  • Ernst Troeltsch (February 17, 1865 – February 1, 1923) was a German Protestant theologian and writer on philosophy of religion and philosophy ...
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  • Anekāntavāda (Devanagari: अनेकान्तवाद), meaning "non-absolutism," is one of the basic principles of Jainism ...
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