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Post-critical | Post-critical is a term coined by scientist-philosopher Michael Polanyi (1891–1976) in the 1950s to designate a position beyond the critical philosophical orientation (or intellectual sensibility). In this context, "the critical mode" designates a way of relating to reality that was initiated in the years preceding the... | 0.760653 | 0.952101 | 0.724219 |
Philosophy of testimony | The philosophy of testimony (also, epistemology of testimony) considers the nature of language and knowledge's confluence, which occurs when beliefs are transferred between speakers and hearers through testimony. Testimony constitutes words, gestures, or utterances that convey beliefs. This definition may be distinguis... | 0.765443 | 0.946114 | 0.724196 |
Intelligible form | An intelligible form in philosophy refers to a form that can be apprehended by the intellect, in contrast to sense perception. According to Ancient and Medieval philosophers, the intelligible forms are the things by which we understand. These are Genera and species. Genera and species are abstract concepts, not concre... | 0.765315 | 0.946114 | 0.724075 |
Intellectual courage | Intellectual courage falls under the philosophical family of intellectual virtues, which stem from a person's doxastic logic.
Broadly differentiated from physical courage, intellectual courage refers to the cognitive risks strongly tied with a person's personality traits and willpower—their quality of mind. Branches i... | 0.765011 | 0.946332 | 0.723955 |
Domestication theory | Domestication theory is an approach in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and media studies that describe the processes by which technology is 'tamed' or appropriated by its users. The theory was originally created by Roger Silverstone, who described four steps that technology goes through when being adapted into peo... | 0.761956 | 0.950105 | 0.723938 |
Geragogy | Geragogy (also geragogics) is a theory which argues that older adults are sufficiently different that they warrant a separate educational theory. The term eldergogy has also been used. Some critics have noted that "one should not expect from geragogy some comprehensive educational theory for older adult learners, but o... | 0.764657 | 0.946551 | 0.723786 |
A posteriori necessity | A posteriori necessity is a thesis in metaphysics and the philosophy of language, that some statements of which we must acquire knowledge a posteriori are also necessarily true. It challenges previously widespread belief that only a priori knowledge can be necessary. It draws on a number of philosophical concepts such ... | 0.770698 | 0.939112 | 0.723772 |
Semantic Web Stack | The Semantic Web Stack, also known as Semantic Web Cake or Semantic Web Layer Cake, illustrates the architecture of the Semantic Web.
The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement led by international standards body the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The standard promotes common data formats on the World Wide Web. By... | 0.760675 | 0.951428 | 0.723728 |
Philosophy of statistics | The philosophy of statistics is the study of the mathematical, conceptual, and philosophical foundations and analyses of statistics and statistical inference. For example, Dennis Lindely argues for the more general analysis of statistics as the study of uncertainty. The subject involves the meaning, justification, util... | 0.764193 | 0.946977 | 0.723674 |
Logosophy | Logosophy is an ethical-philosophical doctrine developed by the Argentine humanist and thinker Carlos Bernardo González Pecotche, which offers teachings of conceptual order and practices that lead oneself to self-cognition and self-improvement through a process of conscious evolution.
Logosophy argues that the thought... | 0.764015 | 0.946977 | 0.723505 |
Knowledge retrieval | Knowledge retrieval seeks to return information in a structured form, consistent with human cognitive processes as opposed to simple lists of data items. It draws on a range of fields including epistemology (theory of knowledge), cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, logic and inference, machine learning and kn... | 0.775665 | 0.932688 | 0.723453 |
Inherence | Inherence refers to Empedocles' idea that the qualities of matter come from the relative proportions of each of the four elements entering into a thing. The idea was further developed by Plato and Aristotle.
Overview
That Plato accepted (or at least did not reject) Empedocles' claim can be seen in the Timaeus. Howev... | 0.761981 | 0.949179 | 0.723256 |
Heuristic argument | A heuristic argument is an argument that reasons from the value of a method or principle that has been shown experimentally (especially through trial-and-error) to be useful or convincing in learning, discovery and problem-solving, but whose line of reasoning involves key oversimplifications that make it not entirely r... | 0.764314 | 0.946224 | 0.723213 |
Free choice inference | Free choice is a phenomenon in natural language where a linguistic disjunction appears to receive a logical conjunctive interpretation when it interacts with a modal operator. For example, the following English sentences can be interpreted to mean that the addressee can watch a movie and that they can also play video g... | 0.764067 | 0.946332 | 0.723061 |
Ontological maximalism | In philosophy, ontological maximalism (or metaontological maximalism) is a ontological realist position that asserts, "whatever can exist does in some sense exist".
Overview
Meta-ontology deals with question related to ontology, whether there are mind independent (objective) answers to "what exists". Ontological real... | 0.795013 | 0.909434 | 0.723011 |
Christian existential apologetics | Christian existential apologetics differs from traditional approaches to Christian apologetics by basing arguments for Christian theism on the satisfaction of existential needs rather than on strictly logical or evidential arguments. Christian existential apologetics may also be distinguished from Christian existential... | 0.770543 | 0.9382 | 0.722923 |
The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life | "The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life" was an essay by the philosopher William James, which he first delivered as a lecture to the Yale Philosophical Club, in 1891. It was later included in the collection, The Will to Believe and other Essays in Popular Philosophy.
He drew a distinction between three questions in... | 0.760568 | 0.950379 | 0.722828 |
Experientialism | Experientialism is a philosophical view which states that there is no "purely rational" detached God's-eye view of the world which is external to human thought. It was first developed by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in Metaphors We Live By. Experientialism is especially a response to the objectivist tradition of tran... | 0.77124 | 0.937088 | 0.72272 |
Quasi-empiricism in mathematics | Quasi-empiricism in mathematics is the attempt in the philosophy of mathematics to direct philosophers' attention to mathematical practice, in particular, relations with physics, social sciences, and computational mathematics, rather than solely to issues in the foundations of mathematics. Of concern to this discussion... | 0.766709 | 0.942445 | 0.722581 |
Relativist fallacy | The relativist fallacy, also known as the subjectivist fallacy, is claiming that something is true for one person but not true for someone else, when in fact that thing is an objective fact. The fallacy rests on the law of noncontradiction. The fallacy applies only to objective facts, or what are alleged to be objectiv... | 0.769599 | 0.938814 | 0.722511 |
Feminist empiricism | Feminist empiricism is a perspective within feminist research that combines the objectives and observations of feminism with the research methods and empiricism. Feminist empiricism is typically connected to mainstream notions of positivism. Feminist empiricism critiques what it perceives to be inadequacies and biases ... | 0.771653 | 0.935932 | 0.722214 |
Rational reconstruction | Rational reconstruction is a philosophical term with several distinct meanings. It is found in the work of Jürgen Habermas and Imre Lakatos.
Habermas
For Habermas, rational reconstruction is a philosophical and linguistic method that systematically translates intuitive knowledge of rules into a logical form. In othe... | 0.776186 | 0.930282 | 0.722072 |
Principle of humanity | In philosophy and rhetoric, the principle of humanity states that when interpreting another speaker we must assume that his or her beliefs and desires are connected to each other and to reality in some way, and attribute to him or her "the propositional attitudes one supposes one would have oneself in those circumstanc... | 0.767674 | 0.94041 | 0.721929 |
Feminist constructivism | Feminist constructivism is an international relations theory which builds upon the theory of constructivism. Feminist constructivism focuses upon the study of how ideas about gender influence global politics. It is the communication between two postcolonial theories; feminism and constructivism, and how they both share... | 0.768581 | 0.939257 | 0.721895 |
Abandonment (existentialism) | Abandonment, in philosophy, refers to the infinite freedom of humanity without the existence of a condemning or omnipotent higher power. Original existentialism explores the liminal experiences of anxiety, death, "the nothing" and nihilism; the rejection of science (and above all, causal explanation) as an adequate fra... | 0.761015 | 0.948591 | 0.721892 |
Conceptual system | A conceptual system is a system of abstract concepts, of various kinds. The abstract concepts can range "from numbers, to emotions, and from social roles, to mental states ..". These abstract concepts are themselves grounded in multiple systems. In psychology, a conceptual system is an individual's mental model of the ... | 0.76112 | 0.9481 | 0.721618 |
Logology (linguistics) | Logology (or ludolinguistics) is the field of recreational linguistics, an activity that encompasses a wide variety of word games and wordplay. The term is analogous to the term "recreational mathematics".
Overview
Some of the topics studied in logology are lipograms, acrostics, palindromes, tautonyms, isograms, pang... | 0.765779 | 0.942316 | 0.721606 |
Ethical omnivorism | Ethical omnivorism, omnivorism or compassionate carnivorism, (as opposed to obligatory carnivorism, the view that it is obligatory for people to eat animals) is a human diet involving the consumption of meat, eggs, dairy and produce that can be traced back to an organic farm. Ocean fish consumption is limited to sustai... | 0.761178 | 0.947898 | 0.721519 |
Epochalism | Epochalism is an attitude of respect for the progressive spirit of the age and for social and technological advancement, which was contrasted by Clifford Geertz with what he termed the (essentialist) valorisation of traditional values. He viewed this distinction as a central social polarity pervading developing nations... | 0.770745 | 0.936098 | 0.721492 |
Folk science | Folk science (also known as "folk knowledge" or "folk classification" (not to be confused with Folk classification, a method of classifying sedimentary rocks named after Robert L. Folk) describes ways of understanding and predicting the natural and social world, without the use of formalized, rigorous, methodologies (s... | 0.762495 | 0.945896 | 0.721241 |
Everyday Aesthetics | Everyday Aesthetics is a recent subfield of philosophical aesthetics focusing on everyday events, settings and activities in which the faculty of sensibility is saliently at stake. Alexander Baumgarten established Aesthetics as a discipline and defined it as scientia cognitionis sensitivae, the science of sensory knowl... | 0.760712 | 0.9481 | 0.721231 |
Ontologism | Ontologism is a philosophical system most associated with Nicholas Malebranche (1638–1715) which maintains that God and divine ideas are the first object of our intelligence and the intuition of God the first act of our intellectual knowledge. Nicolas Malebranche was a source for many later philosophers of Ontologism s... | 0.765926 | 0.94152 | 0.721134 |
Scientific essentialism | Scientific essentialism, a view espoused by Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam, maintains that there exist essential properties that objects possess (or instantiate) necessarily. In other words, having such and such essential properties is a necessary condition for membership in a given natural kind. For example, tigers are... | 0.768215 | 0.938662 | 0.721094 |
Philosophy of evolution | The philosophy of evolution is the branch of philosophy that examines the philosophical implications of evolution and the intersections of evolutionary biology with other fields such as epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and political philosophy.
Charles Darwin's 1859 On the Origin of Species is usually considered to b... | 0.778082 | 0.926697 | 0.721047 |
Epilogism | Epilogism is a style of inference used by the ancient Empiric school of medicine. It is a theory-free method that looks at history through the accumulation of facts without major generalization and with consideration of the consequences of making causal claims. Epilogism is an inference which moves entirely within the ... | 0.78083 | 0.923399 | 0.721017 |
Extensionalism | Extensionalism, in the philosophy of language, in logic and semantics, is the view that all languages or at least all scientific languages should be extensional. It has been described as the default option for the scientism in the nineteenth century and the result of the application of empiricistic inductive methodolog... | 0.767142 | 0.939688 | 0.720874 |
Immediacy (philosophy) | Immediacy is a philosophical concept related to time and temporal perspectives, both visual, and cognitive. Considerations of immediacy reflect on how we experience the world and what reality is. It implies a direct experience of an event or object bereft of any intervening medium. An example would be looking at a pain... | 0.781285 | 0.922302 | 0.720581 |
Practical arguments | Practical arguments are a logical structure used to determine the validity or dependencies of a claim made in natural-language arguments.
Overview...
An argument can be thought of as two or more contradicting tree structures.
The root of each tree is a claim: a belief supported by information.
The root branches out to... | 0.78498 | 0.91782 | 0.72047 |
Antimaterialism | In philosophy, antimaterialism is any of several metaphysical or religious beliefs that are specifically opposed to materialism, the notion that only matter exists. These beliefs include:
Immaterialism, a philosophy branching from George Berkeley of which his idealism is a type
Dualism (philosophy of mind), a philosop... | 0.761267 | 0.946224 | 0.720329 |
Why Does the World Exist? | Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story is a nonfiction work authored by Jim Holt. He and the book were on the LA Times bestseller list during the last quarter of 2012, and the first quarter of 2013. The book was also a 2012 National Book Critics Award finalist for nonfiction.
Central theme
A central... | 0.760686 | 0.946224 | 0.719779 |
Qualitative reasoning | Qualitative Reasoning (QR) is an area of research within Artificial Intelligence (AI) that automates reasoning about continuous aspects of the physical world, such as space, time, and quantity, for the purpose of problem solving and planning using qualitative rather than quantitative information. Precise numerical valu... | 0.774206 | 0.929646 | 0.719738 |
Perspectival realism | In Caspar Hare's theory of perspectival realism, there is a defining intrinsic property that the things that are in perceptual awareness have. Consider seeing object A but not object B. Of course, we can say that the visual experience of A is present to you, and no visual experience of B is present to you. But, it c... | 0.763616 | 0.942186 | 0.719468 |
Social data science | Social data science is an interdisciplinary field that addresses social science problems by applying or designing computational and digital methods. As the name implies, Social Data Science is located primarily within the social science, but it relies on technical advances in fields like data science, network science, ... | 0.766548 | 0.938509 | 0.719412 |
Dialectical research | Dialectical research or dialectical inquiry or dialectical investigation is a form of qualitative research which utilizes the method of dialectic, aiming to discover truth through examining and interrogating competing ideas, perspectives or arguments. Dialectical research can be seen as a form of exploratory research, ... | 0.780007 | 0.922302 | 0.719402 |
Sociological naturalism | Sociological naturalism is a theory that states that natural and society are roughly identical and governed by similar principles. In sociological texts, it is simply referred to as naturalism and can be traced back to the philosophical thinking of Auguste Comte in the 19th century. It is closely connected to positivis... | 0.771795 | 0.931908 | 0.719242 |
Two-dimensionalism | Two-dimensionalism is an approach to semantics in analytic philosophy. It is a theory of how to determine the sense and reference of a word and the truth-value of a sentence. It is intended to resolve the puzzle: How is it possible to discover empirically that a necessary truth is true? Two-dimensionalism provides an a... | 0.761511 | 0.944412 | 0.71918 |
Postmodern psychology | Postmodern psychology is an approach to psychology that questions whether an ultimate or singular version of truth is actually possible within its field.
It also challenges the modernist view of psychology as the science of the individual, in favour of seeing humans as a cultural/communal product, dominated by languag... | 0.764719 | 0.94041 | 0.71915 |
Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm | The Ignatian pedagogical paradigm is a way of learning and a method of teaching taken from the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola. It is based in St. Ignatius Loyola's Spiritual Exercises, and takes a holistic view of the world.
The three main elements are Experience, Reflection, and Action. A pre-learning elem... | 0.760517 | 0.944992 | 0.718682 |
Philosophy of linguistics | The philosophy of linguistics is the philosophy of science applied to linguistics. It is concerned with topics including what the subject matter and theoretical goals of linguistics are, what forms linguistic theories should take, and what counts as data in linguistic research. This distinguishes the philosophy of ling... | 0.764795 | 0.939545 | 0.71856 |
Subtle realism | Subtle realism is a philosophical position within social science that, along with other forms of realism, stands opposed to naïve realism and various forms of relativism and scepticism. The term was coined by Martyn Hammersley.
Its central issue is the relationship between the investigator and the phenomena being studi... | 0.769892 | 0.933072 | 0.718364 |
Figura etymologica | Figura etymologica is a rhetorical figure in which words with the same etymological derivation are used in the same passage. To count as a figura etymologica, it is necessary that the two words be genuinely different words and not just different inflections of the same word. For example, the sentence Once I loved, but ... | 0.761009 | 0.943937 | 0.718344 |
The Realms of Being | Realms of Being (1942) is the last major work by Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana. Along with Scepticism and Animal Faith and The Life of Reason, it is his most notable work; the first two works concentrate primarily on epistemology and ethics respectively, whereas Realms of Being is mainly a work in the f... | 0.764912 | 0.939112 | 0.718338 |
Extelligence | Extelligence is a term coined by Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen in their 1997 book Figments of Reality. They define it as the cultural capital that is available to us in the form of external media (e.g. tribal legends, folklore, nursery rhymes, books, videotapes, CD-ROMs, etc.)
They contrast extelligence with intelligence... | 0.767149 | 0.936262 | 0.718252 |
Endowment (philosophy) | Endowment is a concept in philosophy that refers to human capacities and abilities which can be naturally or socially acquired. Natural endowment is biologically analysed. It is examined through individual genes or inborn abilities. Social endowment is explored through the culture and ethics of human lives in their com... | 0.772492 | 0.929646 | 0.718145 |
Technological somnambulism | Technological somnambulism is a concept used when talking about the philosophy of technology. The term was used by Langdon Winner in his essay Technology as forms of life. Winner puts forth the idea that we are simply in a state of sleepwalking in our mediations with technology. This sleepwalking is caused by a number ... | 0.767662 | 0.935414 | 0.718082 |
Indefinite monism | Indefinite monism is a philosophical conception of reality that asserts that only awareness is real and that the wholeness of reality can be conceptually thought of in terms of immanent and transcendent aspects. The immanent aspect is denominated simply as awareness, while the transcendent aspect is referred to as om... | 0.772998 | 0.928549 | 0.717766 |
Proactionary principle | The proactionary principle is an ethical and decision-making principle formulated by the transhumanist philosopher Max More as follows:
People’s freedom to innovate technologically is highly valuable, even critical, to humanity. This implies several imperatives when restrictive measures are proposed: Assess risks and ... | 0.769499 | 0.932688 | 0.717702 |
Ology | An ology or -logy is a scientific discipline.
Ology or Ologies may also refer to:
Ologies (podcast), a science podcast hosted by Allie Ward
Ology (book series), a fantasy book series by Dugald Steer
Ology (album), 2016 album by Gallant
Ology Bioservices, an American biopharmaceutical company
OLogy, a science website ... | 0.764074 | 0.939112 | 0.717551 |
Philosophy of copyright | The philosophy of copyright considers philosophical issues linked to copyright policy, and other jurisprudential problems that arise in legal systems' interpretation and application of copyright law.
One debate concerns the purpose of copyright. Some take the approach of looking for coherent justifications of establi... | 0.766351 | 0.936098 | 0.717379 |
Abstraction (sociology) | Sociological abstraction refers to the varying levels at which theoretical concepts can be understood. It is a tool for objectifying and simplifying sociological concepts. This idea is very similar to the philosophical understanding of abstraction. There are two basic levels of sociological abstraction: sociological c... | 0.764427 | 0.938354 | 0.717303 |
Agathism | Agathism, from the Greek ἀγαθός agathos (good) is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, "The doctrine that all things tend towards ultimate good, as distinguished from optimism, which holds that all things are now for the best". An agathist accepts that evil and misfortune will ultimately happen, but that the ev... | 0.766926 | 0.935241 | 0.71726 |
Computational philosophy | Computational philosophy or digital philosophy is the use of computational techniques in philosophy. It includes concepts such as computational models, algorithms, simulations, games, etc. that help in the research and teaching of philosophical concepts, as well as specialized online encyclopedias and graphical visuali... | 0.770994 | 0.930282 | 0.717242 |
Ladder interview | A ladder interview is an interviewing technique where a seemingly simple response to a question is pushed by the interviewer in order to find subconscious motives. This method is popular for some businesses when conducting research to understand the product elements personal values for end user.
Example
The technique ... | 0.765359 | 0.936925 | 0.717084 |
Computational epistemology | Computational epistemology is a subdiscipline of formal epistemology that studies the intrinsic complexity of inductive problems for ideal and computationally bounded agents. In short, computational epistemology is to induction what recursion theory is to deduction. It has been applied to problems in philosophy of scie... | 0.7899 | 0.907739 | 0.717023 |
Veterinary ethics | Veterinary ethics is a system of moral principles that apply values and judgments to the practice of veterinary medicine. As a scholarly discipline, veterinary ethics encompasses its practical application in clinical settings as well as work on its history, philosophy, theology, and sociology. Veterinary ethics combi... | 0.762225 | 0.94069 | 0.717018 |
Ethical extensionism | Ethical extensionism or moral extensionism is a metaethical or metaphilosophical approach in environmental ethics and animal ethics that extends existing ethical theories and concepts to include entities (animals, plants, species, the earth) that are traditionally excluded.
For example, while many cultures differ as t... | 0.797175 | 0.899366 | 0.716952 |
Feminist philosophy of science | Feminist philosophy of science is a branch of feminist philosophy that seeks to understand how the acquirement of knowledge through scientific means has been influenced by notions of gender identity and gender roles in society. Feminist philosophers of science question how scientific research and scientific knowledge ... | 0.76357 | 0.938814 | 0.71685 |
Disagreement (epistemology) | The issue of peer disagreement in epistemology discusses the question of how a person should respond when he learns that somebody else with the same body of knowledge disagrees with them.
Types of disagreements
Epistemologists distinguish between two types of disagreements. One type is disagreements about facts. For ... | 0.785829 | 0.911435 | 0.716232 |
Postfoundationalism | Postfoundationalism is a theory of epistemology denoting a rejection of an assumed or given authority for a specific action or belief, but arguing, in dialectical fashion, for a rationale for action or belief. The term was originally used in philosophical theology, although since that time it has been used in wider phi... | 0.773072 | 0.926454 | 0.716216 |
Rotation method | In philosopher Søren Kierkegaard's Either/Or, the rotation method is the mechanism used by higher-level aesthetes in order to avoid boredom. The method is an essential hedonistic aspect of the aesthetic way of life.
Overview
The rotation method has two forms: the inartistic and extensive, and the artistic and intensiv... | 0.760651 | 0.941383 | 0.716064 |
Antanagoge | An antanagoge (Greek ἀνταναγωγή, a leading or bringing up), is a figure in rhetoric, in which, not being able to answer the accusation of an adversary, a person instead makes a counter-allegation or counteracting an opponent's proposal with an opposing proposition in one's speech or writing.
Antanagoge places a negati... | 0.766035 | 0.934715 | 0.716025 |
Unilineality | Unilineality is a system of determining descent groups in which one belongs to one's father's or mother's line, whereby one's descent is traced either exclusively through male ancestors (patriline), or exclusively through female ancestors (matriline). Both patrilineality and matrilineality are types of unilineal desce... | 0.760764 | 0.941111 | 0.715963 |
Ethical relationship | An ethical relationship, in most theories of ethics that employ the term, is a basic and trustworthy relationship that one individual may have with another, that cannot necessarily be characterized in terms of any abstraction other than trust and common protection of each other's body. Honesty is very often a major foc... | 0.774864 | 0.923931 | 0.715921 |
Semantic decomposition (natural language processing) | A semantic decomposition is an algorithm that breaks down the meanings of phrases or concepts into less complex concepts. The result of a semantic decomposition is a representation of meaning. This representation can be used for tasks, such as those related to artificial intelligence or machine learning. Semantic decom... | 0.766642 | 0.933443 | 0.715617 |
Examen philosophicum | Examen philosophicum (Latin for philosophic exam; abbreviated to Ex.phil.) is, together with Examen facultatum, one of two academic exams in most undergraduate programmes at Norwegian universities. Whereas Examen facultatum aims at teaching students how to write academic texts, Examen philosophicum trains students in p... | 0.768446 | 0.931107 | 0.715505 |
Loci theologici | Loci Theologici was a term applied by Melanchthon to Protestant systems of dogmatics and retained by many as late as the seventeenth century. It is also a way of ordering the strength of different sources used in Catholic theology usually attributed to Melchor Cano and still in use today.
The word was borrowed, as he ... | 0.761449 | 0.939545 | 0.715416 |
Extended matching items | Extended matching items/questions (EMI or EMQ) are a written examination format similar to multiple choice questions but with one key difference, that they test knowledge in a far more applied, in-depth, sense.
It is often used in medical education and other healthcare subject areas to test diagnostic reasoning.
Stru... | 0.761946 | 0.938814 | 0.715326 |
Actus primus | Actus primus, or first actuality, is a technical expression used in scholastic philosophy.
The Latin word actus means determination or complement. In every being there are many actualities, which are subordinated. Thus, existence supposes essence, power supposes existence, and faction supposes faculty. The first actu... | 0.77066 | 0.928092 | 0.715243 |
Emerging issues analysis | Emerging issues analysis (sometimes capitalized as Emerging Issues Analysis, and abbreviated as EIA) is a term used in futures studies and strategic planning, to describe the process of identifying and studying issues that have not been influential or important in the past, but that might be influential in the future. ... | 0.763897 | 0.936262 | 0.715208 |
Scepticism and Animal Faith | Scepticism and Animal Faith (1923) is a later work by Spanish-born American philosopher George Santayana. He intended it to be "merely the introduction to a new system of philosophy," a work that would later be called The Realms of Being, which constitutes the bulk of his philosophy, along with The Life of Reason.
Sce... | 0.76003 | 0.940831 | 0.71506 |
World Perspectives | World Perspectives is a scholarly book series edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen and published by Harper & Row.
Number indicates order in series.
Approaches to God by Jacques Maritain
Accent on Form by Lancelot Law Whyte
Scope of Total Architecture by Walter Gropius
Recovery of Faith by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
World Ind... | 0.770548 | 0.927865 | 0.714965 |
Multiperspectivalism | Multiperspectivalism (sometimes triperspectivalism) is an approach to knowledge advocated by Calvinist philosophers John Frame and Vern Poythress.
Frame laid out the idea with respect to a general epistemology in his 1987 work The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God, where he suggests that in every act of knowing, the kn... | 0.764326 | 0.935414 | 0.714962 |
Entention | Entention is a neologism coined by biological anthropologist Terrence Deacon in his 2011 book Incomplete Nature. The term is deliberately similar to the term intention, which has a long history of use in philosophy of mind, but was designed to have a broader scope. "Ententional" is an adjective that applies to the clas... | 0.790922 | 0.903545 | 0.714634 |
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