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101Idealism (italian) and after — Italian idealism and after Gentile, Croce and others Giacomo Rinaldi INTRODUCTION The history of twentieth century Italian philosophy is strongly influenced both by the peculiar character of its evolution in the preceding century and by… …
102adherent — Synonyms and related words: Averroist, Berkeleian, Cartesian, Comtist, Cynic, Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Eretrian, Fichtean, Hegelian, Heideggerian, Heraclitean, Herbartian, Humist, Husserlian, Kantian, Kierkegaardian, Leibnizian, Marxist,… …
103philosopher — Synonyms and related words: Abelard, Albertus Magnus, Albinus, Alexander, Anaxagoras, Anselm, Averroist, Bacon, Berkeleian, Berkeley, Boethius, Bonaventure, Boodin, Bosanquet, Bowne, Broad, Bruno, Cartesian, Chubb, Cicero, Comtist, Condillac,… …
104idealism — A term used to refer to that position in the philosophy of the social sciences which assumes that the social world, like all other objects of external perception, consists of ideas originating from some source or other. Examples of such sources… …
105Locke, John — (1632 1702) An English philosopher and political theorist. The seventeenth century revolution in physical science found in Locke one of its principal philosophical advocates. With dubious consistency, Locke combined together the leading doctrines …
106rural sociology — has been powerfully influenced by anti urbanism , producing a stereotypical view of rural society as stable and harmonious. The claim that certain social characteristics were typical of villages rather than towns was made by Ferdinand Tönnies in… …
107verification — In empiricist philosophy , knowledge claims are accepted as scientific only if they are verifiable. To verify a statement is to provide evidence, generally of an empirical or observational kind, for believing it to be true. In logical empiricism… …
108Vienna Circle — In the 1920s and early 1930s, the empiricist tradition of philosophy of science was reinvigorated by a group of philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists (including some social scientists) at the University of Vienna. The group included Moritz …
109empiricism — [[t]ɪmpɪ̱rɪsɪzəm[/t]] N UNCOUNT Empiricism is the belief that people should rely on practical experience and experiments, rather than on theories as, a basis for knowledge. [FORMAL] Derived words: empiricist plural N COUNT He was an unswerving… …
110post-structuralism — Post structuralism is a term applied to a range of positions and approaches in critical and cultural theory, developed in and from the work of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva and Louis Althusser among others.… …
