20 Terms
Home > Industry/Domain > Philosophy > General philosophy
General philosophy
Terms that relate to philosophy, yet do not fit other specific categories.
Industry: Philosophy
Add a new termContributors in General philosophy
General philosophy
Ceteris paribus
Philosophy; General philosophy
Latin expression for "other things being equal." The term is used in economic analysis when the analyst wants to focus on explaining the effect of changes in one (independent) variable on changes in ...
Champollion Jean Francios
Philosophy; General philosophy
(1790-1832) French Egyptologist. He read Arabic, Persian, and Sanskrit as well as ancient Egyptian and it was he who learned the secret of the hieroglyphic inscriptions. His biographer Harteben ...
Principle of charitable interpretation
Philosophy; General philosophy
A rule for extracting arguments from unstructured or poorly- structured collections of statements, enjoining the extractor to construct from them the best possible argument, given the author's point ...
Certainty
Philosophy; General philosophy
Descartes sought to build knowledge on the basis of certainty, with no room for doubt. Although the project as a whole, as well as its detail, has been contested, certainty remains an ideal for many ...
Challenge study
Philosophy; General philosophy
Studies in which researchers intentionally give subject/patients pharmacological agents in order to induce and study psychiatric symptomology.
Certitude
Philosophy; General philosophy
The mental state in which the mind gives a firm assent to a judgement without fear of the possibility of error, due to recognised valid reasons.
Charvaka
Philosophy; General philosophy
A Hindu philosopher, founder of the charvaka system of philosophy, which is considered by some to be materialistic.
