Search results for "Theory of justification" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Self defense refers to acts of violence committed for the purpose ... Self defense and defense of others (in the United States called alter ...26 KB (4,174 words) - 17:48, 25 January 2023
- “from later”) refer primarily to species of propositional knowledge. A ... The historical source for contemporary understanding of the a priori ...11 KB (1,601 words) - 07:08, 13 June 2023
- [[File:The Fox and the Grapes.jpg|thumb|300px|In the fable of "The ... mental toll this takes on the person. This theory, first proposed by Leon Festinger ...24 KB (3,639 words) - 22:27, 7 January 2024
- "Art for art's sake" is the usual English rendition ... The concept was adopted by a number of French, British and American ...11 KB (1,602 words) - 10:50, 16 August 2023
- work in such subjects as decision theory and epistemology. His highly ... Nozick was born in Brooklyn, the son of a Jewish entrepreneur from ...12 KB (1,858 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- power based upon a certain legitimacy, justification, and the right to exercise ... Since the emergence of the social sciences, authority has been a subject ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- , based on a strict deconstruction of the term, refers to what people ... took common sense as the source and ground of justification for philosophical ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- reminiscence), or as it is also known, the theory of recollection, is one of ... The theory of anamnesis is a version of theory of innate ideas. Rationalists ...15 KB (2,367 words) - 18:58, 26 July 2023
- and was the first appointed professor of sociology in a British university ... England, into the prominent Anglican family of Rev. Reginald Hobhouse and ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 20:13, 25 October 2022
- Egoism is the concept of acting in one’s own self-interest, and ... society; and ethical egoism by the challenge of numerous philosophical and ...28 KB (4,468 words) - 23:59, 12 February 2024
- that represents the logical structure of truth-functional connectives ... The truth-values, truth or falsity, of the sentences in this argument ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022
- Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... existing or possible theories and practices of social, political matters, ...23 KB (3,233 words) - 08:37, 24 November 2022
- American psychologist. He is regarded as one of the most significant social ... the scientific method, he rejected any type of Reductionism, such as the Behavioristic ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 20:09, 25 October 2022
- claim that "moral judgments are capable of being objectively true, because ... the ontological and epistemological assumptions of theism. ...15 KB (2,197 words) - 02:38, 16 November 2022
- is used in juridical and ethical discussions of law and ethics, and often is ... Critics use the term pejoratively for the use of clever but unsound ...15 KB (2,220 words) - 14:26, 29 November 2023
- that attempts to reduce diverse forms of knowledge including concepts ... psychologism on the ground that principles of logic are universally true ...7 KB (1,004 words) - 23:31, 2 December 2022
- and logician. His logical analysis of mathematical problems made ... family in Prague, which was then part of the Austrian Empire. His father ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 11:18, 28 September 2023
- at Harvard University, and the author of several books, including A ... John Bordley Rawls was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the second ...20 KB (2,773 words) - 07:09, 3 August 2022
- considered to be an extinct species of the genus Homo, which lived ... H. ergaster is the early phase or subspecies of H. erectus. Problematic specimens ...7 KB (1,033 words) - 12:10, 2 February 2024
- a human being. Utilitarianism is a moral theory according to which welfare ... back to Plato and ancient Greek discussions of eudaimonia. The most important ...37 KB (5,971 words) - 13:49, 3 May 2023
