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- Leucippus or Leukippos (first half of the fifth century b.c.e.) was ... credited Leucippus with the invention of atomism. His fame was completely ...5 KB (714 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- Representationism or Representative Theory of Perception, also known ... The question then arises about the validity of human knowledge, and ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 19:41, 16 April 2023
- and psychologist. He contributed to a number of different areas in philosophy ... A number of his ideas such as the concept of intentionality, which ...12 KB (1,636 words) - 05:17, 9 April 2024
- and logician, known for his work on perception and thinking. He also wrote ... his work on epistemology and the philosophy of perception. In his first major ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 17:46, 29 July 2023
- Today Mach is probably best known for his positivistic account of ... Mach had an enormous range of scientific interests. According to Peter ...9 KB (1,301 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- was a German philosopher. He was a follower of Leibniz and Christian Wolff ... to the Pietist movement and had become one of its central institutions. His ...8 KB (1,198 words) - 09:10, 18 July 2023
- one's access to the world through perception, experience, and reason ... In visual perception, the appearance of an object changes according ...17 KB (2,483 words) - 01:01, 24 November 2022
- strongly influenced by the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and the hermeneutic ... In 1930 he received his aggregation in philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 00:45, 9 November 2022
- he acquired a reputation in his day as one of the greatest philosophical ... time, and much of contemporary philosophy of perception has its roots in ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:41, 31 July 2023
- Kant to the epistemological approach of his philosophy. Kant presents ... at a synthesis between existing forms of idealism (affirming the reality ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 00:54, 2 May 2023
- Parmenides of Elea (c. 515 – 450 b.c.e.) was a Greek pre-Socratic ... Earlier pre-Socratic philosophers identified the ultimate principle ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 08:52, 18 November 2022
- Nyaya (Sanskrit meaning "rational argument") is one of the ... to Hindu thought is its elucidation of the pramanas (tools of epistemology ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 01:23, 17 November 2022
- American experimental psychologist and one of the most influential leaders ... Boring's work may not have itself have uncovered great secrets ...10 KB (1,397 words) - 23:55, 12 February 2024
- , Scottish philosopher, and a contemporary of David Hume, was a founder of ... 039;s father, Lewis Reid, came from a family of clergymen and government official ...15 KB (2,355 words) - 22:50, 30 April 2023
- An Analogy is a relation of similarity between two or more things ... An analogy is either the cognitive process of transferring information ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 18:56, 26 July 2023
- In the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, noumenon, thing in itself (German ... It is immediately apparent that Kant’s notion of the noumenon is ...9 KB (1,461 words) - 22:14, 16 November 2022
- Xenophanes of Colophon (c. 570 B.C.E.- c. 478 B.C.E.) was a pre-Socratic ... to the divine. He found the origin of these misconceptions of gods ...7 KB (1,024 words) - 14:28, 20 May 2023
- Gestalt school. He is considered to be one of social psychology's pre ... Heider's theoretical position began from the concept of what ...14 KB (2,033 words) - 07:04, 15 April 2024
- educator and philosopher and a leader of the school of new realism in ... to formulate The Program and First Platform of Six Realists published in the ...11 KB (1,682 words) - 00:28, 8 December 2022
- 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
