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| discussion and reasoning by dialogue as a method of intellectual investigation; specifically : the Socratic techniques of exposing false beliefs and eliciting truth b : the Platonic investigation of the eternal ideas |
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| A philosophy or method of inquiry based on the premise that reality consists of objects and events as they are perceived or understood in human consciousness and not of anything independent of human consciousness. |
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| a branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge. |
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| theology deriving its knowledge of God from the study of nature independent of special revelation |
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The process of deriving general principles from particular facts or instances.
b. A conclusion reached by this process. |
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The process of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the stated premises; inference by reasoning from the general to the specific.
b. A conclusion reached by this process. |
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| Moral statements are the sorts of statements which are (or which express propositions which are) true or false (or approximately true, largely false, etc.); |
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| a division of philosophy that is concerned with the fundamental nature of reality and being and that includes ontology, cosmology, and often epistemology |
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| the permanent as contrasted with the accidental element of being b : the individual, real, or ultimate nature of a thing especially as opposed to its existence <a painting that captures the essence of the land> c : the properties or attributes by means of which something can be placed in its proper class or identified as being what it is |
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| In philosophy and rhetoric, the principle of charity requires interpreting a speaker's statements to be rational and, in the case of any argument ... |
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| how could evil exist if there is a omnipotent god |
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| a feature that may or may not belong to something while that thing remands the same in kind |
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