Category: philosophy

20 entries.

• A prioriphrase— Relating to or denoting reasoning or knowledge which proceeds from theoretical deduction rather than from observation or experience.
• Antitheticaladjective— Directly opposite or contrasted.
• Apotheosisnoun— The highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax; the perfect form or example of something.
• Ataraxianoun— Freedom from stress or worry.
• Corollarynoun— A result that is the natural consequence of something else.
• Ephemeraladjective— Lasting a very short time.
• Epiphenomenaladjective— Something secondary, incidental, or a byproduct (not causally important).
• Esotericadjective— Designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone.
• Heterodoxadjective— Not conforming with accepted or orthodox standards or beliefs.
• Illusoryadjective— Based on illusion; not real.
• Jouissancenoun— Intense, often transgressive enjoyment that goes beyond ordinary pleasure.
• Obscurantismnoun— The practice of deliberately preventing the facts or full details of something from becoming known.
• Ontologicallyadverb— Relating to or based upon being or existence.
• Presuppositionsnoun— Things tacitly assumed beforehand at the beginning of a line of argument or course of action.
• Reductiveadjective— Tending to present a subject or problem in a simplified form, especially one viewed as crude.
• Secular Humanismnoun— The belief that humanity is capable of morality and self-fulfillment without belief in God.
• Speciousadjective— Superficially plausible, but actually wrong.
• Suppositionnoun— An uncertain belief.
• Tangentialadjective— Touching lightly.
• Vicissitudenoun— A change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant.