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Contentful — Con*tent ful, a. Full of content. [Obs.] Barrow. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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Internalism and externalism — See also Externalism. Internalism and externalism are two opposing ways of explaining various subjects in several areas of philosophy. These include human motivation, knowledge, justification, meaning and truth. The distinction arises in many… … Wikipedia
Logical quality — In many philosophies of logic statements are categorized into different logical qualities based on how they go about saying what they say. Doctrines of logical quality are an attempt to answer the question: “How many qualitatively different ways… … Wikipedia
Invariances — Invariances, published in 2001 by Harvard University Press, was Robert Nozick s last book before his death in 2002. Introduction In the introduction to his book Nozick assumes orthodox quantum mechanics and draws inferences from it about… … Wikipedia
Evidence of absence — Not to be confused with absence of evidence. An empty field. If our hypothesis was that elephants would be present, we do not merely lack evidence, but instead possess evidence of absence. Evidence of absence is evidence of any kind that suggests … Wikipedia
realism — /ree euh liz euhm/, n. 1. interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc. 2. the tendency to view or represent things as they really are. 3. Fine Arts. a. treatment of forms, colors, space, etc … Universalium
Hume on human understanding — David Hume on human understanding Anne Jaap Jacobson David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature1 was published before he was 30 years old. It is often said to be the greatest philosophical work written in English. Bold and ambitious, it is designed… … History of philosophy
falsification — falsification, falsificationism To falsify a knowledge claim is to provide evidence that it is false. Since the time of David Hume , empiricist philosophy of science has struggled with the problem of induction : namely, how is it possible to… … Dictionary of sociology
