philosophical theory

Noun

Meaning

a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

ism Taoist scholasticism conceptualism intuitionist nominalistic subjectivism philosophical doctrine

Hypernyms

ism philosophy doctrine school of thought philosophical system

Hyponyms

confucianism mechanism aesthetic realism formalism idealism

Examples

There are all kinds of sources of our knowledge; but none has authority ... The fundamental mistake made by the philosophical theory of the ultimate sources of our knowledge is that it does not distinguish clearly enough between questions of origin and questions of validity. Karl Popper

Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analysed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology. . . Aleister Crowley

Close letter words and terms

philosophical study of nature philosophical study of the physical universe philosophical system philosophical topics philosophical wool philosophical writer