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1. abolla, n. View full entry 1700
...In the ancient Roman world: a kind of thick cloak, worn by peasants, soldiers, and others (and, as an affectation, by philosophers)....
2. absolutism, n. View full entry 1753
...Theol. The doctrine of God's absolute sovereignty, esp. that salvation is preordained absolutely; the doctrine of predestination....
3. absolutist, n. and adj. View full entry 1799
...Polit. A supporter or advocate of absolute government. Also: a person who rules or governs absolutely....
4. abstractum, n. View full entry 1728
...An abstract entity or property; esp. an abstract term; = abstract1....
5. academism, n. View full entry 1733
...Philos. Also with capital initial. = academicism1b....
6. actio in distans, n. View full entry 1717
...= action at a distanceaction3. Also in extended use and fig....
7. aesthetic, n. and adj. View full entry 1764
...Chiefly in the philosophy of Kant: the science of perception by the senses. Now hist....
8. aesthetical, adj. View full entry 1797
...Of or relating to aesthetics; relating to the philosophy or theory of beauty. Also: = aesthetic2....
9. aesthetics, n. View full entry 1770
...The philosophy of the beautiful or of art; a system of principles for the appreciation of the beautiful, etc.; the distinctive underlying principles of a work of art or a genre, the...
10. aetiologist | etiologist, n. View full entry 1799
...A person who studies aetiology....
11. † aliation, n. View full entry 1775
...Change in quality; alteration....
12. animalism, n. View full entry 1798
...The doctrine that human beings are merely animals....
13. apagoge, n. View full entry 1728
...Logic. The species of syllogism, or syllogistic reasoning, called abductionObs....
14. apaˈgogical, adj. View full entry 1706
...Of the nature of apagoge; by reductio ad absurdum....
15. a priori, adv. (and adj.) View full entry 1710
...A phrase used to characterize reasoning or arguing from causes to effects, from abstract notions to their conditions or consequences, from propositions or assumed axioms (and not from experience); deductive; deductively....
16. atman, n. View full entry 1785
...The self or soul; the supreme principle of life in the universe....
17. atomistical, adj. View full entry 1707
...= atomistic12....
18. autological, adj. View full entry a1748
...Of, relating to, or characterized by autology or self-knowledge....
19. 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...
20. axiomatic, adj. and n. View full entry 1797
...Of the nature of an axiom or admitted first principle; self-evident; indisputably true....
