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1. Anaxagorean, adj. and n. View full entry 1586
...Of or pertaining to Anaxagoras, a Greek philosopher who taught the eternity of matter, but the agency of a supreme intelligence in combining it into bodies....
2. Anaxiˈmandrian, adj. and n. View full entry 1678
...Adhering to the opinions of Anaximander....
3. Anselmian, adj. View full entry 1884
...Of or pertaining to St. Anselm (10331109), Archbishop of Canterbury, the scholastic philosopher, and esp. to his ontological argument for the existence of God....
4. Averroist, n. View full entry 1753
...One of a sect of peripatetic philosophers who appeared in Italy some time before the restoration of learning, and adopted the leading tenets of Ibn Roshd or Averrhoes, an Arabian philosopher born...
5. Baconian, adj. and n. View full entry 1812
...Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to the experimental and inductive system of natural philosophy taught by him....
6. baralipton, n. View full entry 1653
...A term constructed to represent by its first three vowels, etc. the first indirect mood of the first figure of syllogisms, in which the two premisses are universal affirmatives, and the conclusion...
7. beg, v. View full entry ?c1225
...To ask alms or by way of alms....
8. Bergsonian, adj. and n. View full entry 1909
...Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the French philosopher, Henri Bergson (1859– 1941)....
9. Berkeleian, adj. and n. View full entry 1804
...Of or originating with Berkeley....
10. blik, n. View full entry 1950
...R. M. Hare's word for a behavioural or affective tendency which influences one's interpretation of experience, a personal slant (on something); a conviction, esp. a religious one....
11. Bradleian, adj. View full entry 1905
...Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of: the English idealist philosopher Francis Herbert Bradley (18461924) or his writings; orhis brother, the Shakespearean critic Andrew Cecil Bradley (1851...
12. Church, n.2 View full entry 1939
...a theorem stating that all propositions in first-order predicate logic are undecidable....
13. Coleridgian, adj. and n. View full entry 1834
...Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834), the poet and philosopher, or his writings, opinions, etc....
14. Comtian, adj. and n. View full entry 1855
...Of or originating with Comte....
15. Confucian, adj. and n. View full entry 1837
...Of or relating to the Chinese philosopher Confucius, or his teaching, or followers....
16. Crocean, adj.2 (and n.) View full entry 1921
...Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Croce or his idealistic ‘philosophy of the spirit’. Also , a follower of Croce or of his philosophy....
17. Darwinian, adj. and n. View full entry 1794
...Of, relating to, or characteristic of Erasmus Darwin (17311802) and his scientific and philosophical opinions or his poetical style. Now somewhat rare and chiefly hist....
18. De Morgan's laws, n. View full entry 1918
...Two laws of the propositional calculus, viz. that the negation of a conjunction is logically equivalent to the alternation of the negations of the conjoined expressions, and that the negation of an...
19. Derridean, adj. and n. View full entry 1973
...Of, relating to, or characteristic of the theories and methods of critical analysis associated with Jacques Derrida, esp. deconstruction (deconstructionb)....
20. Deweyism, n. View full entry 1906
...The tenets of the American philosopher and educationist John Dewey (18591952); pragmatism in philosophy or education....
