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• aesthetic, esthetic go
  (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful
  
• Aristotelianism, peripateticism go
  (philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science
  
• conceptualism go
  the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application
  
• Confucianism go
  the teachings of Confucius emphasizing love for humanity
  
• deconstruction, deconstructionism go
  a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning
  
• empiricism, empiricist philosophy, sensationalism go
  (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
  
• environmentalism go
  the philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth
  
• existentialism, existential philosophy, existentialist philosophy go
  (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe
  
• determinism go
  (philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes
  
• formalism go
  (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications
  
• hereditarianism go
  the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth
  
• idealism go
  (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality
  
• intuitionism go
  (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired primarily by intuition
  
• logicism go
  (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all of mathematics can be derived from formal logic
  
• materialism, physicalism go
  (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality
  
• mechanism go
  (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes
  
• mentalism go
  (philosophy) a doctrine that mind is the true reality and that objects exist only as aspects of the mind's awareness
  
• nativism go
  (philosophy) the philosophical theory that some ideas are innate
  
• naturalism go
  (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations
  
• Neoplatonism go
  a system of philosophical and theological doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism
  
• nominalism go
  (philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name
  
• operationalism go
  (philosophy) the doctrine that the meaning of a proposition consists of the operations involved in proving or applying it
  
• realism, Platonism go
  (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names
  
• pragmatism go
  (philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value
  
• probabilism go
  (philosophy) the doctrine that (since certainty is unattainable) probability is a sufficient basis for belief and action
  
• rationalism go
  (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience
  
• realism, naive realism go
  (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not perceived
  
• relativism go
  (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that all criteria of judgment are relative to the individuals and situations involved
  
• Scholasticism go
  the system of philosophy dominant in medieval Europe
  
• semiotics, semiology go
  (philosophy) a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols
  
• sensationalism, sensualism go
  (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good
  
• solipsism go
  (philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist
  
• Stoicism go
  (philosophy) the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno
  
• subjectivism go
  (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge and value are dependent on and limited by your subjective experience
  
• Taoism, Daoism go
  philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events
  
• teleology go
  (philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes
  
• traditionalism go
  the doctrine that all knowledge was originally derived by divine revelation and that it is transmitted by traditions
  
• vitalism go
  (philosophy) a doctrine that life is a vital principle distinct from physics and chemistry