Vi fant 1 definisjoner av philosophical theory på engelsk.
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| philosophical theory - a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy | ||
| philosophical doctrine | ||
| doctrine, ism, philosophical system, school of thought, philosophy a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school | ||
| aesthetic, esthetic (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful; "he despised the esthetic of minimalism" | ||
| aristotelianism, peripateticism (philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science; "Aristotelianism profoundly influenced Western thought" | ||
| conceptualism the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application | ||
| confucianism the teachings of Confucius emphasizing love for humanity; high value given to learning and to devotion to family (including ancestors); peace; justice; influenced the traditional culture of China | ||
| deconstruction, deconstructionism a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | ||
| empiricist philosophy, empiricism, sensationalism the application of empirical methods in any art or science | ||
| environmentalism the activity of protecting the environment from pollution or destruction | ||
| existential philosophy, existentialism, existentialist philosophy (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves | ||
| determinism (philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will | ||
| formalism the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms | ||
| hereditarianism the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth | ||
| idealism impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are | ||
| intuitionism (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired primarily by intuition | ||
| logicism (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all of mathematics can be derived from formal logic | ||
| physicalism, materialism (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality | ||
| mechanism the technical aspects of doing something; "a mechanism of social control"; "mechanisms of communication"; "the mechanics of prose style" | ||
| mentalism (philosophy) a doctrine that mind is the true reality and that objects exist only as aspects of the mind's awareness | ||
| nativism (philosophy) the philosophical theory that some ideas are innate | ||
| naturalism (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations | ||
| neoplatonism a system of philosophical and theological doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism; its most distinctive doctrine holds that the first principle and source of reality transcends being and thought and is naturally unknowable; "Neoplatonism was predominant in pagan Europe until the 6th century"; "Neoplatonism was a major influence on early Christian writers and on later medieval and Renaissance thought and on Islamic philosophy" | ||
| nominalism (philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name | ||
| operationalism (philosophy) the doctrine that the meaning of a proposition consists of the operations involved in proving or applying it | ||
| platonism, realism (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names | ||
| pragmatism (philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value | ||
| probabilism (philosophy) the doctrine that (since certainty is unattainable) probability is a sufficient basis for belief and action | ||
| rationalism the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct | ||
| naive realism, realism the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth | ||
| relativism (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that all criteria of judgment are relative to the individuals and situations involved | ||
| scholasticism orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | ||
| semiology, semiotics (philosophy) a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols | ||
| sensualism, sensationalism (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good | ||
| solipsism (philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist | ||
| stoicism an indifference to pleasure or pain | ||
| subjectivism the quality of being subjective | ||
| daoism, taoism philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events | ||
| teleology (philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes | ||
| traditionalism adherence to tradition (especially in cultural or religious matters) | ||