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• 00:15, 11 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Verification theory (Created page with "The '''verification theory''' (''of meaning'') is a aphilosophical theory proposed by the logical positivists of the Vienna Circle. A simplified form of the theory states that a proposition's meaning (such as "God") is determined by the method through which it is empirically verified. Category:Definitions Category:Philosophy Category:Religion")
• 00:10, 11 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Theory of descriptions (Created page with "In Philosophy the '''theory of descriptions''' boiled down to its simplest non-technical form, the idea is that an expression of the form in (3) is shorthand for the conjunction of three claims: (3a) There is an F. (3b) At most one thing is F. (3c) Something that is F is G. Category:Definitions Category:Philosophy")
• 23:59, 10 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Logical positivist (Redirected page to Logical Positivism) Tag: New redirect
• 23:58, 10 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Theological noncognitivism (Created page with "'''Theological noncognitivism''' adheres to the same principle of the logical positivists but is specific to theology. So for example, claims such as "God is great" or even "God exists" are meaningless. The claim is to say, not that these claims are false, but these claims do not even have the dignity of being false. Category:Definitions Category:Philosophy Category:Religion")
• 23:54, 10 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Symbiosism (Created page with "'''Symbiosism''' is a philosophy about the mind and man's place in nature. It is a Darwinian theory, which considers language an organism residing in the human brain and claims that language is a memetic life form. Symbiosism is defined by the Leiden School. Category:Definitions Category:Philosophy")
• 23:51, 10 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Aristotelian (Redirected page to Aristotle) Tag: New redirect
• 23:50, 10 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Supposition theory (Created page with "'''Supposition theory''' was a branch of medieval logic that was probably aimed at giving accounts of issues similar to modern accounts of reference, plurality, tense, and modality, within an Aristotelian context. Philosophers such as John Buridan, William of Ockham, William of Sherwood, Walter Burley, Albert of Saxony, and Peter of Spain were its principal developers. By the 14th century it seems to have drifted into at least two fairly distinct theories, th...")
• 23:45, 10 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Structuralism (Created page with "'''structuralism''' ''noun'' # A method of analyzing phenomena, as in anthropology, linguistics, Philosophy, or literature, chiefly characterized by contrasting the elemental components of the phenomena in a system of binary opposition and examining how the elemental components are combined to make larger units. # A fascist theory of sociology that views elements of society as part of a cohesive, self-supporting structure. # A school of biological thought tha...")
• 23:39, 10 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Semantic holism (Created page with "'''Semantic holism''' is a theory in the philosophy of language to the effect that a certain part of language, be it a term or a complete sentence, can only be understood through its relations to a larger segment of language. There is substantial controversy, however, as to exactly what the larger segment of language in question consists of. In recent years, the debate surrounding semantic holism, which is one among the many forms of holism that are debated and d...")
• 23:35, 10 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Semantic externalism (Created page with "In the philosophy of language, '''semantic externalism''' is the view that the meaning of a term is determined, in whole or in part, by factors external to the speaker. According to an externalist position, one can claim without contradiction that two speakers could be in exactly the same brain state at the time of an utterance, and yet mean different things by that utterance, that is, the term picks out a different extension. Category:Definitions Category:Phi...")
• 23:31, 10 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Cognitive linguistics (Created page with "'''Cognitive linguistics''' has been in scientific dispute around the label "cognitive linguistics"; there is no consensus on what specifically is meant with the term. It may be an interdisciplinary branch of linguistics, claiming variously that its from cognitive science, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, etc. Category:Definitions")
• 23:24, 10 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Relevance theory (Created page with "'''Relevance theory''' is a framework for understanding the interpretation of utterances. It was first proposed by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson, and is used within cognitive linguistics and pragmatics. The theory was originally inspired by the work of Paul Grice and developed out of his ideas, but has since become a pragmatic framework in its own right. The seminal book, Relevance, was first published in 1986 and revised in 1995 Category:Definitions")
• 23:19, 10 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Roman Catholic (Redirected page to Roman Catholic Church) Tag: New redirect
• 23:18, 10 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Molinism (Created page with "'''Molinism''', named after 16th-century Spanish Jesuit priest and Roman Catholic theologian Luis de Molina, is the thesis that God has middle knowledge. It seeks to reconcile the apparent tension of divine providence and human free will. Prominent contemporary Molinists include William Lane Craig, Alfred Freddoso, Thomas Flint, Kenneth Keathley, Dave Armstrong, John D. Laing, Kirk R. MacGregor, and Timothy A. Stratton. Category:Definitions Category:Philos...")
• 23:15, 10 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Quietism (Created page with "'''quietism''' ''noun'' # A form of Christian mysticism enjoining passive contemplation and the beatific annihilation of the will. # A state of quietness and passivity. # That form of mysticism which consists in the entire abnegation of all active exercise of the will and a purely passive meditation on God and divine things as the highest spiritual exercise and the means of bringing the soul into immediate union with the Godhead. Conspicuous exponents of quie...")
• 23:09, 10 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Logocentrism (Created page with "'''logocentrism''' ''noun'' # A structuralist approach to texts and especially to literary works that conceives of language as based in rational thought and holding meaning by virtue of its potential relation to fundamental reality. # Excessive attention paid to the meanings of words or distinctions in their usage. # The analysis of literature, focusing on the words and grammar to the exclusion of context or literary merit. Category:Definitions")
• 23:07, 10 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Phallogocentrism (Created page with "'''phallogocentrism''' ''noun'' # The privileging of masculinity in the construction of meaning; phallocentrism with a view to logocentrism. Category:Definitions")
• 23:09, 9 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs moved page Hypothesis to Hypotheses
• 23:02, 9 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Scientific method (Created page with "The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century It involves careful observation, applying rigorous skepticism about what is observed, given that cognitive assumptions can distort how one interprets the observation. It involves formulating hypotheses, via induction, based on such observations; the testability of hypotheses, experimental and the measurement-based stat...")
• 22:55, 9 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Law (Created page with "'''Natural laws''' arise from the process known as the scientific method. The scientific method is the systematic study of the natural world through experimentation and observation. This method provides scientists with a rigorous bulletproof framework to objectively study the natural world. Using the scientific method, natural laws can be verified through experiments conducted by independent observers. Laws are scientific principles that are accepted by everyone ever...")
• 22:38, 9 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Fact (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''fact''' ''noun'' # Knowledge or information based on real occurrences. # Something demonstrated to exist or known to have existed. # A real occurrence; an event. ==see also== * law * fact * theory * hypotheses Category:Definitions")
• 22:31, 9 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Theory (Created page with "The meaning of '''THEORY''' is a possible or "scientifically acceptable" general idea or body of principles offered to explain phenomena, that seem to fit the presently understood facts. Category:Definitions")
• 16:51, 9 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Semantic theory (Created page with "'''semantic theory''' ''noun'' # a rule of translation by which a statement (such as the sentence "the sky is blue" is true) in a metalanguage is logically equivalent to a corresponding statement (as "the sky is blue") in an object language # a theory that defines truth as a logical conjunction of the infinite number of such equivalences Category:Definitions")
• 16:44, 9 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Mediated reference theory (Created page with "A '''mediated reference theory''' is any semantic theory that posits that words refer to something in the external world, but insists that there is more to the meaning of a name than simply the object to which it refers. It thus stands opposed to direct reference theory. Gottlob Frege is a well-known advocate of mediated reference theories. Similar theories were widely held in the middle of the twentieth century by philosophers such as Peter Strawson and John Sea...")
• 16:40, 9 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Phenomenalistic (Redirected page to Phenomenalism) Tag: New redirect
• 16:40, 9 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Logical atomism (Created page with "'''Logical atomism''' is a philosophical view that originated in the early 20th century with the development of analytic philosophy. It holds that the world consists of ultimate logical "facts" that cannot be broken down any further, each of which can be understood independently of other facts. Its principal exponent was the British philosopher Bertrand Russell. It is also widely held that the early works of his Austrian-born pupil and colleague, Ludwig Wittgenst...")
• 16:32, 9 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Hypothesis (Created page with "An idea that has even the tiniest bit of evidence. Less than a theory. Nowhere near a fact. Category:Definitions")
• 16:26, 9 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs uploaded File:Whorfianism.png
• 16:26, 9 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page File:Whorfianism.png
• 16:16, 9 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Whorfianism (Created page with "right|225px'''Whorfianism''' is the "science" behind the judeo-Marxist propencity to repeatedly attempt to cha ge tbe meanings if words. It has failed scientifically. Careful consideration shows why. Try calling dry snow "dax" and wet snow "blicket," and see if you notice a change in how you think about snow. I won't. However jews have long believed this to be true, because its written in the talmud somewhere, and so they have repeatedl...")
• 23:39, 8 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Linguistic relativity (Created page with "The hypothesis of '''linguistic relativity'', also known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, the Whorf hypothesis, or Whorfianism, is a principle suggesting that the structure of a language influences its speakers' worldview or cognition, and thus people's perceptions are relative to their spoken language. Many different, often contradictory variations of the hypothesis have existed throughout its history. The strong hypothesis of linguistic relativity, now referred...")
• 23:31, 8 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Linguistic determinism (Created page with "'''Linguistic determinism''' is the philosophical and marxist concept that language and its structures limit and determine human knowledge or thought, as well as thought processes such as categorization, memory, and perception. The term implies that people's native languages will affect their thought process and therefore people will have different thought processes based on their mother tongues. It is Marxist wordplay often used to excuse bad behavior in people...")
• 23:24, 8 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Expressivism (Created page with "In meta-ethics, '''expressivism''' is a marxist theory about the meaning of moral language. It is part of cultural marxism designed to reject moral truth. According to expressivism, sentences that employ moral terms, for example, "It is wrong to torture an innocent human being", are not descriptive or fact-stating; moral terms such as "wrong", "good", or "just" do not refer to real, in-the-world properties. The primary function of moral sentences, according to e...")
• 23:14, 8 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Dramatism (Created page with "'''Dramatism''', a Philisophical language theory, was mwde up by Kenneth Burke as a tool for analyzing human relationships through the use of language. Burke viewed dramatism from the lens of logology, which studies how people's ways of speaking shape their attitudes towards the world. According to this theory, the world is a stage where all the people present are actors and their actions parallel a drama. Burke then correlates dramatism with motivation, saying that...")
• 23:10, 8 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Analytical philosophy (Created page with "'''analytic philosophy''' ''noun'' # A cluster of philosophical traditions holding that argumentation and clarity are vital to productive philosophical inquiry. #A philosophical school of the 20th century whose central methodology is the analysis of concepts or language. Leading practitioners have included Bertrand Russell, George Edward Moore, Rudolf Carnap, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. #Philosophy as professionally practiced in the United States and Great Britain in the 20...")
• 23:07, 8 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Direct reference theory (Created page with "A '''direct reference theory''' is a theory of language that claims that the meaning of a word or expression lies in what it points out in the world. The object denoted by a word is called its referent. Criticisms of this position are often associated with Ludwig Wittgenstein. In the 19th century, mathematician and philosopher Gottlob Frege argued against it, and contrasted it with mediated reference theory. In 1953, with his Philosophical Investigations, Wittgen...")
• 23:01, 8 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Descriptivist theory of names (Created page with "In the philosophy of language, the descriptivist theory of proper names is the view that the meaning or semantic content of a proper name is identical to the descriptions associated with it by speakers, while their referents are determined to be the objects that satisfy these descriptions. Bertrand Russell and Gottlob Frege have both been associated with the descriptivist theory, which is sometimes called the mediated reference theory or Frege–Russell view. In the...")
• 22:58, 8 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Deconstruction (Created page with "'''deconstruction''' ''noun'' A philosophical movement and theory of literary criticism that questions traditional assumptions about certainty, identity, and truth; asserts that words can only refer to other words; and attempts to demonstrate how statements about any text subvert their own meanings. The undoing of what has been constructed or done. A philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a...")
• 22:54, 8 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Contrastivism (Created page with "'''Contrastivism''', or '''the contrast theory of meaning''', is an epistemological theory proposed by Jonathan Schaffer that suggests that knowledge attributions have a ternary structure of the form 'S knows that p rather than q'. This is in contrast to the traditional view whereby knowledge attributions have a binary structure of the form 'S knows that p'. Contrastivism was suggested as an alternative to contextualism. Both are semantic theories that try to exp...")
• 22:49, 8 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Contrast theory of meaning (Created page with "'''Conytast theory''' is the idea in philosophy that facets of an items can come to be recognized by comparing it with other items of like nature which differ a bit in girth, stature, form, color, etc. Contrast theory permits the observance of individual features pertaining to an item through observation of its peers." Category:Definitions Category:Philosophy")
• 22:45, 8 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Causal theory of reference (Created page with "A '''causal theory of reference''' or '''historical chain theory of reference''' is a philisophical theory of how terms acquire specific referents based on evidence. Such theories have been used to describe many referring terms, particularly logical terms, proper names, and natural kind terms. In the case of names, for example, a causal theory of reference typically involves the following claims: • a name's referent is fixed by an original act of naming, whereupon...")
• 00:58, 8 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs undeleted page Greek Gods (4 revisions) (We will come up with a fascist angle later)
• 23:17, 7 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Umberto Boccioni (Created page with "'''Umberto Boccioni''' October 19, 1882 - 17 August 1916) was an influential Italian fascist, philosopher, artist, and sculptor. He helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of the Futurism movement as one of its principal figures. Category:Definitions Category:History Category:People Category:Artists Category:Fascists Category:Philosophers")
• 23:11, 7 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Manifesto of Futurism (Created page with "'''The Manifesto of Futurism''' is a fascist artistic philisophical manifesto written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and published in 1909. Marinetti expresses a philosophy called '''Futurism''' that was a rejection of the past and a celebration of speed, machinery, vitality, youth and industry. It also advocated the modernization and cultural rejuvenation of Italy. Category:Definitions Category:History Category:People Ca...")
• 23:04, 7 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Symbolism (Created page with "'''symbolism''' ''noun'' #In Philosophy, the practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships. #A system of symbols or representations. #A symbolic meaning or representation. Category:Definitions Category:Philosophy")
• 23:01, 7 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Romanticism (Created page with "'''romanticism''' ''noun'' #An artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 1700s and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules and conventions. #Romantic quality or spirit in thought, expression, or action. #The state or quality of being romantic; specifically, in lit....")
• 22:57, 7 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Futurism (Created page with "'''Futurism''' started as a fascist artform under Mussolini, and is an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, in the early 20th century. It emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, youth, vitality, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city. Its key figures included the Italian fascists Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Fortunato Depero, Gino Severini, Giacomo Balla, and Luigi Russolo. It...")
• 22:49, 7 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Impressionism (Created page with "'''Impressionism''' was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities, ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience. A favorote style practiced by Francisco Franco and ocasionally by Adolf Hitler, impressionism originated with a group of Paris-base...")
• 22:41, 7 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Historicism (Created page with "'''historicism''' ''noun'' #A theory in Philosophy that events are determined or influenced by conditions and inherent processes beyond the control of humans. #The view that historical awareness is crucial for adequate understanding in a particular field or in general. #The deliberate use or revival of historical styles in contemporary works. Category:Definitions Category:History Category:Philosophy")
• 22:33, 7 February 2023 Bacchus talk contribs created page Classicism (Created page with "classicism ''noun'' #Aesthetic attitudes and principles manifested in the art, architecture, and literature of ancient Greece and Rome and characterized by emphasis on form, simplicity, proportion, and restraint. #Adherence to the aesthetic values embodied in ancient Greek and Roman art and literature. #Classical scholarship. Category:Definitions Category:Philosophy")