General philosophy

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Descriptivism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Also called the Descriptivist theory of names, is a view of the nature of the meaning and reference of proper names generally attributed to Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell. The theory consists ...

The view that reason, rather than revelation or tradition, should be the basis of belief in God. Deists reject both organised and revealed religion and maintain that reason is the essential element ...

Deconstructionism

Philosophy; General philosophy

School and a set of methods of textual criticism aimed at understanding the assumptions and ideas that form the basis for thought and belief. Also called "deconstruction", its central concern is a ...

Defeatism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Defeatism is acceptance and content with defeat without struggle. In everyday use, defeatism has negative connotation, and is often linked to treason and pessimism. The term is commonly used in the ...

Deontologism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Ethical theory considered solely on duty and rights, where one has an unchanging moral obligation to abide by a set of defined principles. Thus, the ends of any action never justify the means in this ...

Pandeism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Combines deism with pantheism (under theism, below) to propose a deistic God that becomes a pantheistic Universe; coined by Moritz Lazarus and Heymann Steinthal in Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie ...