philosophical theory

Noun
  1. A doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy (synset 106177044)
    is a type of: doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought - a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
    subtypes:
    • aesthetic, esthetic - (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful
    • aristotelianism, peripateticism - (philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science
    • 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
    • empiricism, empiricist philosophy, sensationalism - (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
    • environmentalism - the philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth
    • 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 - (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications
    • hereditarianism - the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth
    • idealism - (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality
    • 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
    • materialism, physicalism - (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality
    • mechanism - (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes
    • 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
    • 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 - (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience
    • naive realism, realism - (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not perceived
    • relativism - (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that all criteria of judgment are relative to the individuals and situations involved
    • scholasticism - the system of philosophy dominant in medieval Europe; based on Aristotle and the Church Fathers
    • semiology, semiotics - (philosophy) a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols
    • sensationalism, sensualism - (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 - (philosophy) the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno
    • subjectivism - (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge and value are dependent on and limited by your subjective experience
    • 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 - the doctrine that all knowledge was originally derived by divine revelation and that it is transmitted by traditions
    • vitalism - (philosophy) a doctrine that life is a vital principle distinct from physics and chemistry
    same as: philosophical doctrine

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