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- 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 (7,618 words) - 03:55, 4 November 2025
- Philosophy of mind is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, mental properties and consciousness ...49 KB (7,510 words) - 03:56, 4 November 2025
- The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia naturalis), has several applications, according to its historical ...13 KB (1,838 words) - 03:56, 4 November 2025
- The philosophy of science, a sub-branch of epistemology, is the branch of philosophy that studies the philosophical assumptions, foundations ...72 KB (11,042 words) - 03:57, 4 November 2025
- Philosophy of religion is the application of the philosophical method to the subject matter of religion. Accordingly, it is the rational study ...73 KB (11,277 words) - 03:56, 4 November 2025
- Philosophy of mathematics is the branch of philosophy that studies the philosophical assumptions, foundations, and implications of mathematics. ...31 KB (4,560 words) - 03:46, 4 November 2025
- Philosophy of history or historiosophy is an area of philosophy concerning the eventual significance of human history. It examines the origin ...30 KB (4,531 words) - 03:47, 4 November 2025
- The term common sense (or, when used attributively as an adjective, commonsense, common-sense or commonsensical), based on a strict deconstruction ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 03:46, 4 November 2025
- Philosophy is the systematic study of the foundations of human knowledge with an emphasis on the conditions of its validity and finding answers ...69 KB (10,119 words) - 03:45, 4 November 2025
- Freedom is traditionally understood as independence of the arbitrary will of another.F.A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (University of Chicago ...28 KB (4,455 words) - 10:43, 11 April 2024
- 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
- Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years; its origins are often traced back to the I Ching (the Book of Changes,) an ancient ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- Jewish philosophy refers to philosophical inquiry informed or inspired by the texts, traditions and experience of the Jewish people. Judaism ...28 KB (4,125 words) - 08:26, 2 January 2025
- The term Indian philosophy may refer to any of several traditions of philosophical thought that originated in India. Indian philosophy has a ...22 KB (3,137 words) - 17:18, 28 November 2024
- Mechanism is a philosophical perspective that holds that phenomena are solely determined by mechanical principles, therefore, they can be adequately ...18 KB (2,812 words) - 10:15, 29 April 2025
- The sublime, in aesthetics (from the Latin sublimis, [looking up from] under the lintel, high, lofty, elevated, exalted), is the quality of greatness ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 21:10, 26 February 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) - 04:12, 24 May 2024
- Modern Philosophy refers to an especially vibrant period in Western European philosophy spanning the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Most ...25 KB (3,892 words) - 08:18, 1 June 2025
- 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
- Ubuntu ùbúntú , is a traditional African concept. The word ubuntu comes from the Zulu and Xhosa languages, and can be roughly translated as ...15 KB (2,228 words) - 23:30, 5 November 2024
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- An ideal language (also philosophical or a priori language) is any constructed language that is built up out of first principles, such as a logical ...6 KB (858 words) - 15:48, 28 November 2024
- In logic and mathematics, together with the allied branches of computer science, information theory, and statistics, a formal system is an idealized ...5 KB (794 words) - 06:34, 1 April 2024
- 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
- Max Black (February 24, 1909 Baku, Russian Empire [present-day Azerbaijan] – August 27, 1988, Ithaca, New York, United States) was a distinguished ...9 KB (1,246 words) - 09:35, 29 April 2025
- Welcome to the [//www.newworldencyclopedia.org/ New World Encyclopedia], a project to promote true knowledge that leads to human happiness ...1 KB (162 words) - 15:02, 27 June 2021
- 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
- Implication or entailment is used in propositional logic and predicate logic to describe a relationship between two sentences or sets of sentences ...8 KB (1,293 words) - 16:27, 28 November 2024
- The terms, denotation and connotation, are used to convey and distinguish between two different kinds of meanings or extensions of a word. A ...7 KB (986 words) - 09:46, 29 January 2024
- 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
- In philosophy the notion of categories derives from Aristotle’s (384-322 B.C.E.) logic and ontology. In logic the categories are understood ...7 KB (987 words) - 18:01, 30 November 2023
- 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
- 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
- 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) - 11:53, 29 April 2025
- The concept of intentionality has been defined and developed throughout the history of philosophy in a variety of ways. The term originates from ...11 KB (1,573 words) - 08:14, 30 November 2024
- 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
- Anaximenes (in Greek: Άναξιμένης) of Miletus (c. 585 – 528 b.c.e.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, the third of the philosophers ...7 KB (1,024 words) - 19:08, 26 July 2023
- category:image wanted Cixous,Hélène Hélène Cixous, (born June 5, 1937), is a French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary ...9 KB (1,273 words) - 14:27, 28 November 2024
- 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
- Ernest Nagel (November 16, 1901 – September 22, 1985) was an important twentieth-century philosopher of science. Born in Prague, he emigrated ...9 KB (1,352 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- Category:Public[[Image:Leucippus.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Leucippus]] Leucippus or Leukippos (first half of the fifth century b.c.e.) was a pre-Socratic ...5 KB (714 words) - 20:04, 11 March 2025
