General philosophy

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Equivocation

Philosophy; General philosophy

The informal fallacy that can result when an ambiguous word or phrase is used in different senses within a single argument. Example: "Odd things arouse human suspicion. But seventeen is an odd ...

Animism has been applied to many different philosophical systems. It is used to describe Aristotle's view of the relation of soul and body held also by the stoics and scholastics. On the other hand ...

Anthropomorphism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A form of personification (applying human or animal qualities to inanimate objects) and similar to prosopopoeia (adopting the persona of another person), is the attribution of human characteristics ...

Antinomianism

Philosophy; General philosophy

In theology is the idea that members of a particular religious group are under no obligation to obey the laws of ethics or morality as presented by religious authorities. Antinomianism is the polar ...

Anthropocentrism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The practice, conscious or otherwise, of regarding the existence and/or concerns of human beings as the central fact of the universe. This is similar, but not identical, to the practise of relating ...

Homocentrism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Anti-realism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Any position involving either the denial of the objective reality of entities of a certain type or the insistence that we should be agnostic about their real existence. Thus, we may speak of ...