General philosophy

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Empiricism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The doctrine that all knowledge ultimately comes from experience, denying the notion of innate ideas or a priori knowledge about the world. It is opposed with rationalism.

Epiphenomenalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The view in philosophy of mind according to which physical events have mental effects, but mental events have no effects of any kind. In other words, the causal relations go only one way, from ...

A concern for the preservation, restoration, or improvement of the natural environment, such as the conservation of natural resources, prevention of pollution, and certain land use actions. It often ...

Emotionalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

An inclination to rely on or place too much value on emotion. It could be argued that very few, if any, people would label themselves "emotionalists", but rather that it would be a derogatory term ...

Eternalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A philosophical approach to the ontological nature of time. It builds on the standard method of modelling time as a dimension in physics, to give time a similar ontology to that of space. This would ...

Emotivism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The non-cognitivist meta-ethical theory that ethical judgments are primarily expressions of one's own attitude and imperatives meant to change the attitudes and actions of another. It is heavily ...

Epicureanism

Philosophy; General philosophy

While often considered to be the philosophy of pleasure seeking, in fact refers to a middle-path philosophy defining happiness as success in avoiding pain, in the form of both mental worry and ...