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Logical empiricist

Philosophy; General philosophy

A term for those 20th century philosophers who maintain that empiricism is right on purely logical (not psychological) grounds. Empiricism becomes a theory about the meaning of synthetic ...

Logic

Philosophy; General philosophy

The study of the most general truths -- those truths which are independent of any particular subject matter.

Having, or presupposing, a use of terms that relates not to the extension (that is, the individual things that actually happen to fall under these terms in this world) but determines what could or ...

Induction

Philosophy; General philosophy

Ideally, a form of reasoning in which one moves from one or more premises to a conclusion in such a way that while the conclusion seems to have been given some justification, it is logically possible ...

Immanent

Philosophy; General philosophy

Given directly in my experience. As opposed to "transcendent. " A transcendent God, for example, would be one that would not be present in my actual experience.

Proofs of the existence of God

Philosophy; General philosophy

# The Ontological argument: literally, from the "logic" of God's "being" (onto). The claim is that God is a necessary being. Just as a round square is necessarily non-existent, so if we consider the ...

Existentialism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A philosophic movement primarily associated with the mid-20th century, in part arising from phenomenology (see J. P. Sarte, M. Heidegger, K. Jaspers, A. Camus, etc. ) that insists that human beings ...