mental+philosophy

  • 111Sublime (philosophy) — In aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublimis ( [looking up from] under the lintel, high, lofty, elevated, exalted) is the quality of greatness or vast magnitude, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or… …

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  • 112Consolation of Philosophy, The — (Consolatio Philosophiae)    by Boethius (524–526)    BOETHIUS’s Consolation of Philosophy is a short philosophical tract composed when the author was in prison, awaiting execution for treason by Theodoric the Ostrogoth. The text deals with the… …

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  • 113Mechanism (philosophy) — Mechanism is the belief that natural wholes (principally living things) are like machines or artifacts, composed of parts lacking any intrinsic relationship to each other, and with their order imposed from without. Thus, the source of an apparent …

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  • 114Indeterminacy (philosophy) — Indeterminacy, in philosophy, can refer both to common scientific and mathematical concepts of uncertainty and their implications and to another kind of indeterminacy deriving from the nature of definition or meaning.[citation needed] It is… …

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  • 115List of topics in philosophy of mind — * Alan Turing * Alexius Meinong * Anomalous monism * Anthony Kenny * Arnold Geulincx * Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness * Australian materialism * Baruch Spinoza * Biological naturalism * Brain in a vat * C. D. Broad *… …

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  • 116Matter (philosophy) — This article is about matter in philosophy. For other uses, see Matter (disambiguation). Matter is the substrate from which physical existence is derived, remaining more or less constant amid changes. anything that occupies space and has mass and …

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  • 117Authenticity (philosophy) — Authenticity is a technical term in existentialist philosophy, and is also used in the philosophy of art and psychology. In philosophy, the conscious self is seen as coming to terms with being in a material world and with encountering external… …

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  • 118Agricultural philosophy — is the love of, search after and wisdom associated with agriculture, as one of humankind s founding components of civilization. In everyday usage, it is the knowledge of phenomena and their causes and effects in and explained by agriculture. It… …

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  • 119Class (philosophy) — Philosophers sometimes distinguish classes from types and kinds. We can talk about the class of human beings, just as we can talk about the type (or natural kind), human being, or humanity. How, then, might classes differ from types? One might… …

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  • 120Presentism (philosophy of time) — In the philosophy of time, presentism is the belief that only the present exists and the future and the past are unreal. Past and future entities are to be construed as logical constructions or fictions. The opposite of presentism is eternalism …

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