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41Metaphilosophy — Metaphilosophy, also called philosophy of philosophy, is the study of the nature, aims, and methods of philosophy. The term is derived from Greek word meta μετά ( after , beyond , with ) and philosophía φιλοσοφία ( love of wisdom ). The term has… …
42Pragmatism — This article is about the philosophical movement. For other uses, see Pragmatism (disambiguation). Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition centered on the linking of practice and theory. It describes a process where theory is extracted from… …
43Logicism — is one of the schools of thought in the philosophy of mathematics, putting forth the theory that mathematics is an extension of logic and therefore some or all mathematics is reducible to logic.[1] Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead… …
44Counterintuitive — The word counterintuitive literally means counter to intuition, and so it essentially means that something does not seem right or correct. A counterintuitive proposition is one that does not seem likely to be true when assessed using intuition or …
45Philosophy of mind — A phrenological mapping[1] of the brain. Phrenology was among the first attempts to correlate mental functions with specific parts of the brain. Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the nature of the mind, mental even …
46History of Grandi's series — Geometry and infinite zerosGrandiGuido Grandi (1671 – 1742) reportedly provided a simplistic account of the series in 1703. He noticed that inserting parentheses into nowrap|1=1 − 1 + 1 − 1 + · · · produced varying results: either:(1 1) + (1 1) + …
47Bertrand's box paradox — is a classic paradox of elementary probability theory. It was first posed by Joseph Bertrand in his Calcul des probabilités , published in 1889. There are three boxes: a box containing two gold coins, a box with two silver coins, and a box with… …
48Precognitive dreams — are dreams that have been credited with foresight or precognition. It is a phenomenon that has fascinated and puzzled mankind for thousands of years. Precognition is typically defined as knowing or perceiving events before they actually occur.… …
49ethics — /eth iks/, n.pl. 1. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) a system of moral principles: the ethics of a culture. 2. the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.: medical ethics;… …
50pantheism — pantheist, n. pantheistic, pantheistical, adj. pantheistically, adv. /pan thee iz euhm/, n. 1. the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God… …
