Western philosophy

Western philosophy

The philosophical thinking of Western civilization as distinct from Eastern philosophies and the varieties of indigenous philosophies.

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Adept

Philosophy; Western philosophy

The word literally means a person who is skilled; hence, even in our ordinary life, a chemist, a physician, a theologian, a mechanic, an engineer, a teacher of languages, an astronomer, are all ...

(1863-1936) General Secretary of the Fife Miners7 Union from 1908 until his death. In 1910 he became Scotland's first miners' MP, representing Fife West until 1931. Prominent within the Parliamentary ...

Robert Adamson

Philosophy; Western philosophy

(1852-1902) One of the most learned contemporary philosophers in the world. He was an outspoken agnostic and a utilitarian in ethics. In the symposium Ethical Democracy (1900) he says that even the ...

Ad hoc polymorphism

Philosophy; Western philosophy

A kind of polymorphism in programming languages in which a function executes different code according to the type of the polymorphic parameter supplied. Special cases include overloading and ...

Actuality and potentiality

Philosophy; Western philosophy

Aristotle's distinction between what really is the case and what merely has the power to change or to come to be the case. Thus, for example, the fresh acorn is actually a seed but potentially an oak ...

Abstract idea

Philosophy; Western philosophy

An idea which expresses a nature or determining attribute considered (by the mind) as separated from the subject in which it inheres.

Accurate

Philosophy; Western philosophy

Being free of errors, mistakes, or distortion. Correct connotes little more than absence of error; accurate implies a positive exercise of one to obtain conformity with fact or truth; exact stresses ...