General philosophy

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Creationism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Also referred to as creation theology is the belief that humans, life, the Earth, and the universe were created by a supreme being or deity's supernatural intervention. The intervention may be seen ...

Old earth creationism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A variant of the creationist view of the origin of the universe and life on Earth. As a theory of origins it is typically more compatible with mainstream scientific thought on the issues of geology, ...

Individualism

Philosophy; General philosophy

In political philosophy, the view that the rights or well-being of individuals are to be protected, rather than the well-being of groups such as nations or states, ideologies (such as communism or ...

Inductivism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A philosophy that holds that scientific research is guided by the various observations and data produced by previous science experiments; In other words, that science progresses in a direction that ...

Inductionism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The scientific philosophy where laws are "induced" from sets of data. As an example, one might measure the strength of electrical forces at varying distances from charges and induce the inverse ...

Innatism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Doctrine that holds the mind is born with ideas or knowledge, and is not a 'blank slate' at birth as early empiricists such as John Locke claimed. It asserts that not all knowledge is obtained from ...

Incompatibilism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The view that free will and determinism are not compatible. Incompatibilists that believe in free will are "libertarians" and those who reject free will are "hard determinists."