#philosophical_doctrine__philosophicaldoctrine__philosophical_theory__philosophicaltheory  a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy
  supertype:  #doctrine__philosophy__school_of_thought__ism  a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
  subtype:  #aesthetic__esthetic  a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful; "he despised the esthetic of minimalism"
  subtype:  #Aristotelianism  the philosophy of Aristotle that elaborates the fundamental principles of the syllogism
  subtype:  #conceptualism  the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application
  subtype:  #Confucianism  the teachings of Confucius emphasizing love for humanity; high value given to learning and to devotion to family (including ancestors); peace; justice; influenced the traditional culture of China
  subtype:  #deconstruction__deconstructionism  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
  subtype:  #empiricism__empiricist_philosophy__sensationalism  the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
     subtype:  #experimentalism  an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles
     subtype:  #logical_positivism__logicalpositivism__positivism  the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)
        subtype:  #Comtism  Auguste Comte's positivistic philosophy that metaphysics and theology should be replaced by a hierarchy of sciences from mathematics at the base to sociology at the top
  subtype:  #existentialism__existentialist_philosophy  a 20th-century philosophical movement; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves
  subtype:  #determinism  a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will
     subtype:  #fatalism  a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them
  subtype:  #formalism.philosophical_doctrine  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
  subtype:  #idealism.philosophical_doctrine  the doctrine that ideas are the only reality
  subtype:  #intuitionism  the doctrine that knowledge is acquired primarily by intuition
  subtype:  #logicism  the philosophical theory that all of mathematics can be derived from formal logic
  subtype:  #physicalism__materialism  the doctrine that matter is the only reality
     subtype:  #dialectical_materialism__dialecticalmaterialism  the materialistic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  subtype:  #mechanism.philosophical_doctrine  the doctrine that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes
  subtype:  #mentalism  a doctrine that mind is the true reality and that objects exist only as aspects of the mind's awareness
  subtype:  #nativism  the philosophical doctrine that some ideas are innate
  subtype:  #naturalism  the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations
  subtype:  #nominalism  the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name
  subtype:  #operationalism  the doctrine that the meaning of a proposition consists of the operations involved in proving or applying it
  subtype:  #Platonism__realism  the philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names
  subtype:  #pragmatism  the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value
  subtype:  #probabilism  the doctrine that (since certainty is unattainable) probability is a sufficient basis for belief and action
  subtype:  #rationalism  the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience
  subtype:  #naive_realism__naiverealism__realism  the philosophical doctrine that physical object continue to exist when not perceived
  subtype:  #relativism  the philosophical doctrine that all criteria of judgment are relative to the individuals and situations involved
  subtype:  #scholasticism  the system of philosophy dominant in medieval Europe; based on Aristotle and the Church Fathers
  subtype:  #semiotics__semiotic  a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols
  subtype:  #sensualism__sensationalism  the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good
  subtype:  #solipsism  the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist
  subtype:  #Stoicism  the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno
  subtype:  #subjectivism  the doctrine that knowledge and value are dependent on and limited by your subjective experience
  subtype:  #Daoism__Taoism  philosophical system developed by of Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events
  subtype:  #teleology  a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes
  subtype:  #traditionalism.philosophical_doctrine  the doctrine that all knowledge was originally derived by divine revelation and that it is transmitted by traditions
  subtype:  #vitalism  a doctrine that life is a vital principle distinct from physics and chemistry

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