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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
- Eudaimonism is an ethical theory which maintains that happiness (eudaimonia) is reached through virtue (aretê). Eudaimonia and aretê are two ...33 KB (5,174 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- Neo-Hegelianism refers to several schools of thought associated with and inspired by the ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a German idealist ...8 KB (1,042 words) - 16:16, 11 November 2022
- Yury Olesha ( Юрий Карлович Олеша , (May 3, 1899 – May 10, 1960) was a Russian novelist during the early Soviet period. He ...7 KB (1,003 words) - 10:31, 7 June 2023
- Sir John Carew Eccles (January 27, 1903 – May 2, 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ...14 KB (2,183 words) - 17:05, 5 April 2024
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne ([ miʃɛl ekɛm də mɔ̃tɛɲ ]) (February 28, 1533 – September 13, 1592) was one of the most influential writers ...14 KB (2,276 words) - 17:11, 9 November 2022
- Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was a twentieth-century American poet, whose verse has been the subject of more critical ...19 KB (3,090 words) - 20:56, 18 November 2022
- Legal ethics is a branch of applied ethics, having to do with the study and application of what is right and wrong, good and bad, in the practice ...17 KB (2,791 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- The First Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament traditionally held to have been written by Saint Peter the apostle during his time ...7 KB (1,040 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- José Ortega y Gasset (May 9, 1883 - October 18, 1955) was a Spanish philosopher and humanist who greatly influenced the cultural and literary ...25 KB (3,932 words) - 01:34, 8 September 2022
- 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
- Philosophical anthropology is the philosophical discipline that inquires into the essence of human nature and the human condition. In making ...8 KB (1,089 words) - 04:13, 24 November 2022
- Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 ...32 KB (4,643 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- category:image wanted Virtue ethics is one of three major theories in normative ethics, the other two being deontological ethics and consequentialism ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 20:38, 3 May 2023
- Bernard Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano (October 5, 1781 – December 18, 1848) was a Czech mathematician, theologian, philosopher, and logician ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 11:18, 28 September 2023
- First Cause is term introduced by Aristotle and used in philosophy and theology. Aristotle noted that things in nature are caused and that these ...8 KB (1,282 words) - 19:54, 26 March 2024
- Category:Lawyers and Jurists [[Image:Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt - Hugo Grotius.jpg|thumb|230px|Hugo Grotius by Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, 1631]] ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- John Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American bank robber, considered by some to be a dangerous criminal, while others idealized ...13 KB (2,104 words) - 18:51, 5 April 2024
- The First Great Awakening (often referred by historians as the Great Awakening) is the name sometimes given to a period of heightened religious ...15 KB (2,094 words) - 17:24, 28 March 2024
- Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म from the root kri, "to do") is a term used in several eastern religions referring to the entire cycle ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 07:22, 5 October 2022
- Professor Roderick Ninian Smart (May 6, 1927 – January 29, 2001) was a Scottish writer and university educator. He was a pioneer in the field ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- Category:Psychologists Category:Anthropologists Category:Writers and poets Category:Image wanted Becker, Ernest Ernest Becker (September 27, 1924 ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 19:31, 13 February 2024
- Category:Media Professionals Cooper, Kent Kent Cooper (March 22, 1880 - January 31, 1965) was a distinguished journalist who served with the Associated ...7 KB (1,050 words) - 03:26, 6 October 2022
- Aesop (also spelled Æsop, from the Greek Αἴσωπος – Aisōpos) is the figure traditionally credited with the collection of fables identified ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- Max Scheler (August 22, 1874 - May 19, 1928) was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology ...14 KB (2,180 words) - 00:58, 9 November 2022
- Spencer Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor who appeared in 74 films from ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 19:15, 7 February 2023
- 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
- Basilides (early second century) was a Gnostic Christian religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt. He taught a dualistic theology that emphasized ...17 KB (2,600 words) - 11:07, 20 September 2023
- Ellen Gould White (née Harmon) (November 26, 1827 - July 16, 1915) was co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, prolific writer, lecturer ...20 KB (3,079 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- The Right Reverend James Edward Lesslie Newbigin C.B.E. (December 8, 1909 – January 30, 1998) was a distinguished British theologian, missionary ...30 KB (4,685 words) - 22:01, 25 October 2022
- Rosslyn Chapel, properly named the Collegiate Church of St Matthew, was originally a Roman Catholic church founded in the village of Roslin, ...15 KB (2,311 words) - 22:26, 16 December 2022
- Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (May 5, 1813 – November 11, 1855) was a nineteenth century Danish philosopher and theologian who has often been called ...47 KB (7,286 words) - 02:01, 27 February 2023
- John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. Keats' poetry is characterized ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 06:06, 3 August 2022
- Nichiren (日蓮) (February 16, 1222 – October 13, 1282), born Zennichimaro (善日麿), later Zeshō-bō Renchō (是生房蓮長), and finally ...27 KB (4,005 words) - 23:30, 14 November 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Zeno.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Zeno of Citium]] Stoicism, one of the three major schools of Hellenistic philosphy, was founded ...21 KB (3,500 words) - 00:46, 26 February 2023
- Frederick Charles Louis Constantine, prince and landgrave of the House of Hesse (May 1, 1868 – May 28, 1940), was the brother-in-law of the ...7 KB (1,132 words) - 07:09, 6 June 2021
- Dorothy Thompson (July 9, 1893 - January 30, 1961) was an American journalist who gained international celebrity when she became the first journalist ...14 KB (2,067 words) - 17:28, 30 January 2024
- Category:Psychologists Category:Public Maslow, Abraham Abraham Maslow (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist who helped ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 06:31, 14 June 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
- Logic, from Classical Greek λόγος (logos), originally meaning the word, or what is spoken, (but coming to mean thought or reason or an explanation ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- Godiva (or Godgifu) (fl. 1040-1080) was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in England ...16 KB (2,352 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- Advaita Vedanta (IAST Advaita Vedānta ; Sanskrit अद्वैत वेदान्त ; IPA /əd̪vait̪ə veːd̪ɑːnt̪ə/ ...32 KB (4,839 words) - 06:20, 15 June 2023
- The Second Epistle of John, also called 2 John, is a book of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. It is the shortest book of the Bible, ...8 KB (1,363 words) - 17:41, 25 January 2023
- Category:Image wanted Category:Psychologists Festinger, Leon Leon Festinger (May 8, 1919 – February 11, 1989) was an American psychologist. ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 20:09, 25 October 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
- Cartography or mapmaking (in Greek chartis - map and graphein - write) is the study and practice of making representations of the Earth on a ...27 KB (4,007 words) - 00:45, 29 November 2023
- Victor Cousin (November 28, 1792 - January 13, 1867) was a French philosopher, educational reformer, and a historian, whose systematic eclecticism ...26 KB (4,045 words) - 18:04, 3 May 2023
- Tamar (תָּמָר, Hebrew meaning "Date Palm") was the fore-mother of the Jews and the daughter-in-law of the patriarch Judah, the ...15 KB (2,478 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- Pope Leo XIII (March 2, 1810 - July 20, 1903), born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, was the 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 20:07, 25 October 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
- 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
- Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 – August 9, 1942) was a German philosopher, a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died ...16 KB (2,393 words) - 20:38, 8 August 2023
- Lacydes of Cyrene, Greek philosopher, became head of the Platonic Academy at Athens in succession to Arcesilaus about 241 B.C.E. He left no extant ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 04:33, 6 October 2022
- The Devil is the title given to the supernatural being who is believed to be a powerful, evil entity and the tempter of humankind. The name ...20 KB (3,299 words) - 10:16, 29 January 2024
- Steve Bantu Biko (December 18, 1946 – September 12, 1977) was a noted anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s ...19 KB (2,967 words) - 04:41, 28 April 2023
- Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000), usually cited as W.V. Quine or W.V.O. Quine but known to his friends as Van, was ...34 KB (5,037 words) - 15:37, 6 May 2023
- Yúnmén Wényǎn (862 or 864 Dumoulin (1994), 230. – 949 C.E.), (雲門文偃; Japanese: Ummon Bun'en; he is also variously known in English ...14 KB (2,283 words) - 10:26, 7 June 2023
- Environmentalism is a perspective that encompasses a broad range of views concerned with the preservation, restoration, or improvement of the ...21 KB (2,883 words) - 19:02, 13 February 2024
- Postmodernism (sometimes abbreviated as Po-Mo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture ...45 KB (6,401 words) - 05:50, 30 November 2022
- Islamic philosophy (الفلسفة الإسلامية) is a branch of Islamic studies, and is a longstanding attempt to create harmony between ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 21:49, 8 March 2024
- Joseph Echols Lowery (October 6, 1921 – March 27, 2020) was an American minister in the United Methodist Church and leader in the civil rights ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 00:42, 11 August 2022
- Category:Sociologists Category:Philosophers Habermas, Jürgen [[Image:JuergenHabermas.jpg|thumb|200 px|Jürgen Habermas during a discussion in ...27 KB (3,751 words) - 21:47, 4 October 2022
- Philosophy of language is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins, and usage of language. As a topic, the philosophy of language for Analytic ...51 KB (7,646 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- A virtue is a trait or disposition of character that leads to good behavior, for example, wisdom, courage, modesty, generosity, and self-control ...43 KB (6,406 words) - 20:37, 3 May 2023
- Noah Webster (October 16, 1758 – April 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, political writer, and editor ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 02:32, 16 November 2022
- Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in New England in the early to mid-nineteenth ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 01:03, 2 May 2023
- Basil of Caesarea (ca. 330 - January 1, 379 C.E.) (Latin: Basilius), also called Saint Basil the Great (Greek: Άγιος Βασίλειος ...16 KB (2,517 words) - 03:31, 1 January 2022
- An Analogy is a relation of similarity between two or more things, so that an inference (reasoning from premise to conclusion) is drawn on the ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 18:56, 26 July 2023
- A polygraph (commonly referred to as a lie detector) is an instrument that measures and records several physiological responses such as blood ...34 KB (5,091 words) - 00:19, 12 April 2023
- category:image wanted Golden mean or "middle way" is an ancient concept described in various traditions. The concept was often discussed ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 06:15, 20 December 2022
- Category:Public Zeno of Elea (Greek. Ζήνων)(c. 490 B.C.E. – 430 B.C.E.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy and a member ...8 KB (1,289 words) - 05:50, 13 June 2023
- 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
- Michael Faraday was one of the pioneers of modern electromagnetic theory. His work laid the foundation for the identification of light as an ...17 KB (2,503 words) - 16:54, 9 November 2022
- Philosophy of mathematics is the branch of philosophy that studies the philosophical assumptions, foundations, and implications of mathematics. ...31 KB (4,571 words) - 04:15, 24 November 2022
- Qian Zhongshu (November 21, 1910 – December 19, 1998) was a Chinese literary scholar and writer, known for his burning wit and formidable erudition ...22 KB (3,269 words) - 21:10, 14 April 2023
- Empiricism is a term in philosophy for a set of philosophical positions that emphasize the role of experience. The category of experience may ...34 KB (4,921 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- Morgan Scott Peck (May 23, 1936 – September 25, 2005) was an American psychiatrist and author, best known for his first book, The Road Less ...37 KB (5,607 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
- Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (April 30, 1777 – February 23, 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:45, 5 April 2024
- Solipsism (Latin: solus, alone + ipse, self) is the position that nothing exists beyond oneself and one's immediate experiences. In philosophy ...26 KB (3,989 words) - 15:09, 27 April 2023
- Hassan-i Sabbāh, or Hassan aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ (c. 1034 - 1124), was a Persian Nizārī Ismā'īlī missionary who converted a community in ...21 KB (3,293 words) - 08:37, 25 January 2023
- Sir William Muir, KCSI (April 27, 1819 – July 11, 1905) was born in Scotland where he ended his career as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of ...26 KB (3,916 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- Jericho (Arabic أريحا, ʼArīḥā; Hebrew יְרִיחוֹ, Standard Yəriḥo Tiberian Yərîḫô / Yərîḥô; meaning "fragrant," ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:27, 1 August 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Religion [[Image:Spirit rappings coverpage to sheet music 1853.jpg|thumb ...22 KB (3,512 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- Category:Public Unification Thought is the philosophy of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. The late Dr. Sang Hun Lee, a disciple of Reverend Moon, ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 01:38, 3 May 2023
- Catharine Esther Beecher (September 6, 1800 – May 12, 1878) was a noted educator and author renowned for her forthright opinions on women’s ...8 KB (1,133 words) - 00:09, 1 December 2023
- Marin Mersenne, Marin Mersennus, or le Père Mersenne (September 8, 1588 – September 1, 1648) was a French theologian, philosopher, mathematician ...8 KB (1,231 words) - 15:57, 6 November 2022
- Lucian of Antioch, also known as “Saint Lucian of Antioch” (c. 240–January 7, 312. January 7 was the calendar day on which his memory was ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2022
- Evangelista Torricelli (October 15, 1608 – October 25, 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the ...8 KB (1,143 words) - 04:50, 23 March 2024
- Maoism or Mao Zedong Thought ( s=毛泽东思想|p=Máo Zédōng Sīxiǎng ), is a variant of Marxism-Leninism derived from the teachings of the ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 03:00, 6 November 2022
- Plato (c. 428 B.C.E. – c. 348 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and is perhaps the most famous and influential thinker in the history of Western ...37 KB (6,078 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- Mystici Corporis Christi is a papal encyclical issued by Pope Pius XII on June 29, 1943, during World War II, which affirms that the Church ...10 KB (1,484 words) - 22:43, 10 November 2022
- Mythology (from the Greek μῦθος (mythos), meaning a narrative, and logos, meaning speech or argument) refers to a body of stories that attempt ...26 KB (3,852 words) - 22:45, 10 November 2022
- Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (July 28, 1804 – September 13, 1872) was a nineteenth century German philosopher, known for his critique of religious ...24 KB (3,623 words) - 02:37, 5 November 2022
- Pascal's Wager (or Pascal's Gambit) is the application by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) of decision theory to the ...20 KB (3,286 words) - 08:59, 18 November 2022
- Neo-Kantianism designates the revived or modified types of Kantian philosophy identified with the “back to Kant” movement in the late nineteenth ...24 KB (3,466 words) - 16:16, 11 November 2022
- The Cynics were an influential school of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers. They adopted ideas of Socrates, contributed significantly to the ...9 KB (1,393 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- Qu Yuan ( c=屈原|p=Qū Yuán , Ch’u Yuan) (ca. 340 B.C.E. - 278 B.C.E.) was a Chinese patriotic poet from southern Chu during the Warring ...16 KB (2,703 words) - 07:48, 3 July 2022
- Lage Raho Munna Bhai (Hindi: LageRahoMunnaBhaiPronounciation.ogg|2={{lang|hi|लगे रहो मुन्नाभाई}} , ləgeː ɾəhoː ...43 KB (6,480 words) - 05:34, 4 March 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
- An ad hoc meeting of the Constituent Assembly, held on the July 22, 1947, adopted the National Flag of India, in its present form, a few days ...33 KB (5,237 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- Desmond Mpilo Tutu (October 7, 1931 - December 26, 2021) was a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s ...30 KB (4,335 words) - 09:58, 29 January 2024
- The categorical proposition is a basic concept in Aristotelian or traditional logic (also sometimes called syllogistic or categorical logic) ...12 KB (1,791 words) - 18:00, 30 November 2023
- Scriptures (from the Latin scriptura, meaning "a writing") are sacred texts that serve a variety of purposes in the individual and ...38 KB (5,920 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- Karaites, Karaite Judaism or Karaism is a Jewish denomination characterized by the sole reliance on the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) as scripture, and ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- 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
- The Five Pillars of Islam refers to "the five duties incumbent on every Muslim," consisting of the shahadah (profession of faith), ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 20:40, 9 April 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
- Gilbert Ryle (Aug. 19, 1900, Brighton, Sussex, Eng. – Oct. 6, 1976, Whitby, North Yorkshire), was a philosopher and a founding representative ...18 KB (2,734 words) - 07:53, 14 December 2022
- Seongcheol (Hangul: 성철, Hanja: 性徹, April 10, 1912 – November 4, 1993) is the dharma name of a Korean Seon (Hangul: 선, Hanja: 禪 ...36 KB (5,271 words) - 19:47, 21 April 2023
- Joseph Conrad (December 3, 1857 – August 3, 1924) was a Polish-born British novelist, one of the most important and respected writers of the ...22 KB (3,425 words) - 07:21, 10 August 2022
- Monarchianism (also known as monarchism) refers to a heretical body of Christian beliefs that emphasize the indivisibility of God (the Father ...19 KB (2,965 words) - 13:08, 10 March 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
- Sufism (from Arabic (صوف), Suf meaning "wool") is a mystical tradition of Islam dedicated to experiencing Allah/God as the epitome ...29 KB (4,602 words) - 13:45, 28 April 2023
- The Westminster Confession of Faith is a reformed confession of faith, in the Calvinist theological tradition embraced by the Church of Scotland ...10 KB (1,440 words) - 17:22, 4 May 2023
- Negative theology (also known as Apophatic theology) is a method of describing God by negation, in which one avers only what may not be said ...18 KB (2,832 words) - 16:09, 11 November 2022
- Jewish philosophy refers to philosophical inquiry informed or inspired by the texts, traditions and experience of the Jewish people. Judaism ...28 KB (4,179 words) - 03:01, 1 August 2022
- Panpsychism is the view that all of the fundamental entities in the universe possess some degree of mentality or consciousness, where this mentality ...10 KB (1,525 words) - 06:37, 18 November 2022
- 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
- Johann Kaspar Schmidt (October 25, 1806 – June 26, 1856), better known as Max Stirner, was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary ...35 KB (5,494 words) - 00:59, 9 November 2022
- George Meredith, OM (February 12, 1828 – May 18, 1909) was an English Victorian novelist and poet. His novels are noted for their sparkling ...8 KB (1,223 words) - 15:24, 11 November 2022
- Toshusai Sharaku (17?? - 1801?) (Japanese: 東洲斎写楽) is widely considered to be one of the great masters of the Japanese woodblock print ...9 KB (1,417 words) - 13:17, 27 January 2023
- In the sociology of religion, a sect is generally a small religious or political group that has broken off from a larger group, for example from ...9 KB (1,258 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- Anaxagoras (c. 500 – 428 b.c.e.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Anaxagoras conceived the origin of the cosmos as the pre-existing, undifferentiated ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 19:07, 26 July 2023
- The Athanasian Creed, also known as (Quicumque vult) from its opening Latin words, is a statement of Christian trinitarian doctrine traditionally ...10 KB (1,699 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- Category:Psychologists Asch, Solomon Solomon E. Asch (September 14, 1907 - February 20, 1996) was a world-renowned American Gestalt psychologist ...20 KB (2,927 words) - 15:10, 27 April 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:WilliamPaley.jpg|thumb|right|William Paley]] William Paley (July 1743 – May 25, 1805) was an English divine, Christian ...9 KB (1,398 words) - 10:38, 11 May 2023
- George Fox (July 1624 – January 13, 1691), founder of the Religious Society of Friends (commonly known as the Quakers), grew up with deep religious ...29 KB (4,689 words) - 10:15, 13 December 2023
- The Gospel of Judas, a second century Gnostic gospel, was discovered in the twentieth century and publicly unveiled in 2006. It portrays the ...24 KB (3,824 words) - 19:38, 8 June 2023
- Mahadevi Verma (March 26, 1907 – September 11, 1987) was an Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist, sketch story writer, and an eminent personality ...33 KB (4,286 words) - 22:07, 30 October 2023
- Paul Karl Feyerabend (January 13, 1924 – February 11, 1994) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science. He was one of the half-dozen or so ...26 KB (3,955 words) - 16:54, 21 November 2022
- Wilfred Edward Salter Owen (March 18, 1893 – November 4, 1918) was an English poet of the early twentieth century who is often esteemed to ...8 KB (1,341 words) - 18:46, 4 May 2023
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (original: The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...18 KB (2,959 words) - 15:42, 30 April 2023
- Category:Image wanted Matthew Tindal, (1657 – August 16, 1733), was an eminent English deist whose works, highly influential at the dawn of ...9 KB (1,411 words) - 16:56, 7 November 2022
- Category:Media Organizations [[Image:AFP Paris dsc04592.jpg|thumb|200 px|Paris headquarters of AFP]] Agence France-Presse (AFP) is the oldest ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 06:44, 16 June 2023
- category:image wanted {{Infobox_Philosopher | region = Western Philosophy| era = twentieth-century philosophy| ...35 KB (5,046 words) - 09:29, 15 December 2022
- African philosophy is a disputed term, used in different ways by different philosophers. In attributing philosophical ideas to philosophers of ...20 KB (3,143 words) - 06:07, 16 June 2023
- Gnosticism is a general term describing various mystically-oriented groups and their teachings, which were most prominent in the first few centuries ...36 KB (5,554 words) - 19:08, 31 December 2023
- Philosophy of history or historiosophy is an area of philosophy concerning the eventual significance of human history. It examines the origin ...30 KB (4,545 words) - 04:16, 24 November 2022
- Sabellius, a Christian priest, theologian, and teacher, was active during the first decades of the third century, propounding a Christological ...10 KB (1,465 words) - 18:31, 22 December 2022
- Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky ( Моде́ст Петро́вич Му́соргский , Modest Petrovič Musorgskij) (March 9, 1839 – March ...18 KB (2,697 words) - 19:26, 9 November 2022
- Johann Gottfried von Herder (August 25, 1744 – December 18, 1803) was a German philosopher, poet, critic, theologian. He is best known for ...18 KB (2,775 words) - 14:41, 1 August 2022
- John Frederick Denison Maurice (August 29, 1805 - April 1, 1872) was an English theologian and socialist recognized as one of the most important ...29 KB (4,360 words) - 10:32, 11 April 2024
- Medical ethics, also known as health care ethics, or as biomedical ethics, is a field of applied ethics (see the article metaethics)—ethics ...22 KB (3,471 words) - 09:37, 10 March 2023
- Indra is the most important deity in ancient Vedic Hinduism and the supreme deva (god) of the Rigveda scripture. Known as the god of storms and ...18 KB (2,879 words) - 20:00, 4 March 2024
- Martin Bormann (June 17, 1900 – May 2, 1945) was a prominent Nazi official. He became head of the Party Chancellery (Parteikanzlei) and private ...18 KB (2,707 words) - 00:14, 28 November 2021
- 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
- Apollonius of Rhodes, also known as Apollonius Rhodius (early third century B.C.E. - after 246 B.C.E.), was an epic poet, scholar, and director ...10 KB (1,538 words) - 15:46, 11 August 2023
- 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
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {| class="infobox" !colspan="2" ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 01:07, 8 February 2023
- Authority (Latin auctoritas, used in Roman law as opposed to potestas and imperium) is a key concept in political philosophy. Authority is a ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- Jeremy Taylor (1613 - August 13, 1667) was a clergyman in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during The Protectorate of Oliver ...18 KB (2,949 words) - 02:26, 1 August 2022
- Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 – March 25, 1980) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician ...25 KB (3,880 words) - 02:43, 16 December 2022
- Anne Marbury Hutchinson (July 17, 1591 - August 20, 1643) was a leading religious dissenter and nonconforming critic of the Puritan leadership ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- The Greek word λόγος, or logos, is a word with various meanings. It is often translated into English as "Word," but can also mean ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- 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
- Saint Nicholas ( Νικόλαος , Nikolaos, "victory of the people") was Bishop of Myra during the fourth century C.E., well known ...19 KB (3,124 words) - 00:48, 23 December 2022
- Category:Public Category:Image wanted Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (June 21, 1892 – June 1, 1971) was a Protestant social ethicist, preacher, ...32 KB (4,798 words) - 03:06, 8 December 2022
- Ram Mohan Roy, also written as Rammohun Roy, or Raja Ram Mohun Roy (Bangla: রাজা রামমোহন রায়, Raja Rammohon Rae ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 00:31, 8 December 2022
- category:image wanted The Logicians or School of Names (名家; Míngjiā; "School of names" or “School of semantics”) was a classical ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 17:21, 25 January 2023
- 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
- Sidney Hook (December 20, 1902 – July 12, 1989) was an American philosopher in the school of pragmatism, known for his contributions to the ...27 KB (3,748 words) - 14:49, 31 May 2023
- Catherine Booth (January 17, 1829 – October 4, 1890) was the wife of William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, and was considered the ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 16:14, 3 December 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
- Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban, King's Council (January 22, 1561 – April 9, 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman and essayist ...23 KB (3,596 words) - 04:48, 9 April 2024
- Choe Je-u (崔濟愚) (1824 - 1864) emerged as the founder of an indigenous Korean religion, one that had enormous impact on the unfolding of ...18 KB (2,900 words) - 17:10, 10 December 2023
- Zoroastrianism (or Mazdaism) refers to the religion developed from the teachings of the Persian prophet Zarathushtra (c. tenth century B.C.E ...42 KB (6,394 words) - 06:12, 13 June 2023
- Category:Economists Rothbard, Murray [[Image:Murray Rothbard.jpg|thumb|300 px|Rothbard c. 1955]] Murray Newton Rothbard (March 2, 1926 – January ...36 KB (5,322 words) - 19:01, 10 November 2022
- The March First Movement, or the Samil Movement (in Korean, samil means "three-one" or "March 1") was one of the earliest ...28 KB (4,439 words) - 11:10, 9 March 2023
- Henry Habberley Price (May 17, 1899 – November 26, 1984) was a British philosopher and logician, known for his work on perception and thinking ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 17:46, 29 July 2023
- Category:Image wanted Arthur Garfield Hays (1881-1954) was most well known for his work and involvement in the American Civil Liberties Union ...9 KB (1,434 words) - 05:44, 9 January 2023
- Absolute idealism is an ontologically monistic philosophy attributed to G.W.F. Hegel. Hegel developed a comprehensive speculative metaphysics ...29 KB (4,323 words) - 17:06, 17 December 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:RWEmerson.jpg|thumb|230px|Ralph Waldo Emerson]] Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was the preeminent ...20 KB (2,972 words) - 00:31, 8 December 2022
- Borobudur, a ninth century Buddhist Mahayana monument in Central Java, Indonesia. Built for the devotees of Mahayana Buddhism, the temple stands ...30 KB (4,409 words) - 19:44, 20 November 2023
- Ali ibn Abi (or Abu) Talib ( علي بن أبي طالب ) (ca. 21 March 598 – 661) was an early Islamic leader. He is seen by the Sunni Muslims ...25 KB (4,139 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
- Sedevacantism is a theological position embraced by a minority of Traditionalist Catholics which holds that the Papal See has been vacant since ...21 KB (3,214 words) - 20:24, 21 December 2023
- George Washington Carver (c. early 1864 – January 5, 1943) was an African American botanist who dedicated his life to applying science and ...18 KB (2,882 words) - 01:30, 23 November 2022
- Helena Petrovna Hahn (also Hélène) (July 31, 1831 (O.S.) (August 12, 1831 (N.S.)) - May 8, 1891 London), better known as Helena Blavatsky ( ...24 KB (3,559 words) - 13:46, 27 October 2022
- In Norse mythology, Brunhild or Brynhildr is one of the Valkyries or warrior maidens esteemed for their military prowess. Her honored status ...18 KB (2,858 words) - 16:28, 30 April 2020
- Max Theodore Felix von Laue (Pfaffendorf, near Koblenz, October 9, 1879 – April 24, 1960 in Berlin) was a German physicist. He demonstrated ...27 KB (3,968 words) - 01:05, 9 November 2022
- Category:Media Professionals [[Image:Medill2.jpg|thumb|200 px|Joseph Medill]] Medill, Joseph Joseph Medill (April 6, 1823 – March 16, 1899) ...26 KB (4,040 words) - 00:43, 11 August 2022
- Responsibility is a duty or obligation for which a person is held accountable. It is the human condition that people are responsible or held ...36 KB (5,446 words) - 18:16, 8 December 2022
- Realism is a widely used term in the arts. In literature, it came into being as a response to Romanticism. While Romanticism focused on the inner ...18 KB (2,918 words) - 01:40, 8 December 2022
- Henry Timrod, (December 8, 1828—October 7, 1867), was called The Poet Laureate of the Confederacy by famed Victorian era poet Alfred Lord Tennyson ...9 KB (1,541 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- In Hinduism, Balarama (Devanagri: बलराम) is listed in the Bhagavata Purana as an avatar (incarnation) of the Hindu god Vishnu. ...10 KB (1,539 words) - 05:51, 26 August 2023
- In Hinduism, the term Isvara (ईश्वर in Devanagari script, also variously transliterated as Ishvara and Īśvara), is a generic name ...11 KB (1,693 words) - 06:19, 11 March 2024
- Category:Psychologists Frankl, Viktor Viktor Emil Frankl (March 26, 1905 – September 2, 1997) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist. ...21 KB (3,325 words) - 20:21, 3 May 2023
- John Constable (June 11, 1776 – March 31, 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape ...19 KB (2,987 words) - 04:48, 3 August 2022
- John Ruskin (February 8, 1819 – January 20, 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author ...29 KB (4,524 words) - 07:44, 3 August 2022
- Kazi Nazrul Islam ( কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম ) (May 25, 1899 — August 29, 1976) was a Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary ...34 KB (5,210 words) - 22:44, 14 September 2023
- 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
- David Hartley (June 21, 1705 – August 28, 1757) was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of psychology. He provided ...9 KB (1,402 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- Category:Public Fundamentalism refers to any sect or movement within a religion that emphasizes a rigid adherence to what it conceives of as the ...27 KB (4,004 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- Category:Psychologists Category:Image wanted Gesell, Arnold {{Infobox scientist |name = Arnold Gesell |image = ...11 KB (1,524 words) - 03:53, 15 August 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Eingang Mathematisches Kolloquium.jpg|thumb|right|Entrance to the Mathematical Seminar at the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse ...34 KB (4,936 words) - 20:14, 3 May 2023
- The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest Massacre, was a mass execution of Polish citizens by the order of Soviet authorities in 1940. ...48 KB (7,094 words) - 22:04, 3 March 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
- Michael Servetus (also Miguel Servet or Miguel Serveto) (September 29, 1511 – October 27, 1553) was a Spanish theologian, physician, and humanist. ...19 KB (2,991 words) - 17:09, 9 November 2022
- Polycarp of Smyrna (ca. 69 - ca. 155) was a Christian bishop of Smyrna (now İzmir in Turkey) in the second century. Alhough he is not noted ...21 KB (3,429 words) - 00:51, 23 December 2022
- Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, commonly known as Novalis (May 2, 1772 – March 25, 1801), was one of the earliest of the German ...20 KB (3,018 words) - 22:15, 16 November 2022
- Zoroaster (Greek Ζωροάστρης, Zōroastrēs) or Zarathushtra (Avestan: Zaraθuštra), also referred to as Zartosht ( زرتشت ...25 KB (3,791 words) - 06:11, 13 June 2023
- Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks ( יעקב צבי זקס, romanized: Ya'akov Tzvi Zaks; March 8, 1948 - November 7, 2020) was a British ...46 KB (6,319 words) - 07:34, 27 February 2023
- The term scientism has been used with different meanings in literature. The term is often used as a pejorative Scientism: "an exaggerated ...22 KB (3,110 words) - 02:36, 21 April 2023
- Seoul National University (SNU) is a national research university in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 1946. SNU, the first national university ...21 KB (2,854 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- Louse (plural: Lice) is any of the small, wingless, dorsoventally flattened insects comprising the neopteran order Phthiraptera. This order of ...10 KB (1,538 words) - 09:08, 9 March 2023
- Category:Media Organizations British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the largest broadcasting corporation ...29 KB (4,446 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- Duncan James Corrowr Grant (January 21, 1885 - May 8, 1978) was a Scottish painter and member of the Bloomsbury Group, an English group of artists ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 17:21, 12 February 2024
- 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
- Sede vacante (Latin for "the seat being vacant"), refers to the vacancy of the episcopal see of a particular church in the Canon law ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 20:19, 26 December 2023
- Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 – October 6, 1542) was a poet and ambassador in the service of Henry VIII. Although Wyatt's literary output was ...9 KB (1,558 words) - 22:57, 30 April 2023
- He Xiangu (meaning "Immortal Woman He") (Wade-Giles: "Ho Hsien-ku" ) is the only female deity among the Eight Immortals figures ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 09:15, 20 January 2024
- Pietro Pomponazzi (also known by his Latin name, Petrus Pomionatius) (September 16, 1462 – May 18, 1525) was an Italian philosopher. He was ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 05:29, 24 November 2022
- 1 Esdras is a book from the Septuagint Greek translation of Hebrew scriptures. Largely a recapitulation of other biblical texts, it is regarded ...11 KB (1,713 words) - 06:31, 13 June 2023
- Category:Public Category:Sociologists Weber, Max [[Image:Max Weber 1894.jpg|thumb|right|Max Weber]] Maximilian Weber (April 21, 1864 – June ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 01:03, 9 November 2022
- "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
- Category:Public [[Image:John Locke.jpg|right|300px|thumb|John Locke]] John Locke (August 29, 1632 – October 28, 1704) was a seventeenth-century ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 16:04, 27 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal [[Image:Edouard-Isidore-Buguet-PK-spirit-photographer.jpg|thumb ...21 KB (3,027 words) - 23:15, 2 December 2022
- Mind is a concept developed by self-conscious humans trying to understand what is the self that is conscious and how does that self relate to ...35 KB (5,274 words) - 18:47, 9 November 2022
- Category:Education Category:Economics Category:Politics and social sciences Tenure commonly refers to life tenure in a job, and specifically to ...21 KB (3,170 words) - 03:41, 30 April 2023
- Federalist No. 55 is an essay attributed sometimes to either James Madison or Alexander Hamilton, the fifty-fifth of The Federalist Papers. It ...13 KB (1,792 words) - 01:55, 26 March 2024
- The Honorable Robert Boyle (January 25, 1627 – December 30, 1691) was an Irish natural philosopher who made important contributions to chemistry ...20 KB (3,111 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- The Age of Enlightenment, sometimes called the Age of Reason, refers to the time of the guiding intellectual movement, called The Enlightenment ...33 KB (4,666 words) - 04:36, 30 April 2021
- Czechoslovakia (Czech and Slovak languages: Československo) was a country in Central Europe that existed from October 28, 1918, when it declared ...21 KB (2,978 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
- Creation is a theological notion or position in many religions or religious myths which teaches that a single God, or a group of gods or deities ...31 KB (4,834 words) - 01:16, 7 April 2022
- Reductionism, in a philosophical context, is a theory that asserts that the nature of complex things is reduced to the nature of sums of simpler ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 02:59, 8 December 2022
- Thomas Samuel Kuhn (July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American historian and philosopher of science who wrote extensively on the history ...29 KB (4,408 words) - 22:54, 30 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Annulment is a procedure for declaring a marriage null and void. Unlike divorce, it is retroactive: ...12 KB (1,862 words) - 05:11, 31 July 2023
- Michel Foucault (IPA pronunciation: [miˈʃɛl fuˈko] ) (October 15, 1926 – June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher, historian and sociologist ...48 KB (6,765 words) - 17:10, 9 November 2022
- Charles Sanders Peirce (pronounced purse), (September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American polymath, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts ...60 KB (9,018 words) - 22:24, 4 December 2023
- The Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari, 平家物語) is an epic account of the struggle between the Taira and Minamoto clans for control of ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 17:35, 30 April 2023
- Category:Lawyers and Jurists Darrow, Clarence [[Image:Clarence Darrow.jpg|thumb|right|Clarence Seward Darrow ca. 1922]] Clarence Seward Darrow ...21 KB (3,485 words) - 22:33, 10 December 2023
- The Bhagavad Gita (Sanskrit sa|भगवद् गीता Bhagavad Gītā , "Song of God" or “The Lord’s Song”) is a Sanskrit ...36 KB (5,510 words) - 03:32, 1 October 2023
- The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican (popularly known as Vatican II) was the twenty-first Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church ...53 KB (8,198 words) - 14:42, 3 May 2023
- Cartesianism is the school of philosophy based on the fundamental philosophical principles of the great French philosopher René Descartes. Descartes ...11 KB (1,731 words) - 00:41, 29 November 2023
- Leon Marcus Uris (August 3, 1924 – June 21, 2003) was an American author of historical fiction who wrote many bestselling books including Exodus ...24 KB (3,406 words) - 16:05, 28 November 2023
- Rajneesh Chandra Mohan Jain (रजनीश चन्द्र मोहन जैन) (December 11, 1931 – January 19, 1990), better known ...28 KB (4,136 words) - 03:34, 1 October 2023
- Fake news, also known as junk news or pseudo-news, is a type of yellow journalism or propaganda that consists of deliberate disinformation or ...44 KB (6,310 words) - 00:32, 25 March 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:Heraclitus b 4 compressed.jpg|Heraclitus|thumb|250px|right]] The Greek philosopher Heraclitus (Greek Ἡράκλειτος ...11 KB (1,556 words) - 09:50, 22 January 2024
- Thomas à Kempis, also known as Thomas Hämerken (1380 - 1471), was a Renaissance Roman Catholic monk and author of The Imitation of Christ, ...10 KB (1,599 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- Aram Ilich Khachaturian (Armenian: Արամ Խաչատրյան, Aram Xačatryan; Russian: Аpaм Ильич Xaчaтypян, Aram Il'ič Hačaturjan ...10 KB (1,319 words) - 21:29, 11 August 2023
- The book of 4 Maccabees is a homily or philosophic discourse praising the supremacy of pious reason over passion. Among churches other than the ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- Thomas Carlyle (December 4, 1795 – February 5, 1881) was a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, whose writings were highly influential ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 18:40, 30 April 2023
- Category:Philosophy and religion Helmut Richard Niebuhr (1894 – 1962) was an American Christian ethicist best known for his books The Meaning ...24 KB (3,589 words) - 18:47, 29 July 2023
- Anna Pavlovna Pavlova (c. January 31, 1881 – January 23, 1931) was a famous ballet dancer of the early twentieth century. This legendary prima ...11 KB (1,683 words) - 06:48, 28 July 2023
- 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
- The question of the meaning of life is perhaps the most fundamental "why?" in human existence. It relates to the purpose, use, value ...50 KB (7,753 words) - 02:49, 9 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:Electric chair.jpg|thumb|250 px|The first electric chair, which was used to execute ...11 KB (1,758 words) - 02:55, 29 December 2021
- Cochise (A-da-tli-chi = "hardwood," also Cheis) (c. 1805 – June 9, 1874) was a chief (a nantan) of the Chokonen ("central" ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 22:17, 7 January 2024
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Devanagari: मोहनदास करमचन्द गांधी; Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ...56 KB (8,938 words) - 15:04, 16 June 2023
- Lucretia Coffin Mott (January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was an American Quaker minister, abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:27, 5 November 2022
- Category:Media Professionals [[Image:Paul Julius Reuter 1869.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Reuter aged 53 years (1869) by Rudolf Lehmann]] ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 01:30, 23 November 2022
- Antinomianism (from the Greek: αντι, "against" + νομος, "law"), or lawlessness (Greek: ανομια), in theology ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 06:34, 31 July 2023
