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Parent topics

• Philosophy [r]: The study of the meaning and justification of beliefs about the most general, or universal, aspects of things. ^[e]

Subtopics

Causation [r]: Add brief definition or description David Hume [r]: (1711—1776) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. [e] Dispositions [r]: Add brief definition or description Dualism [r]: Add brief definition or description Existence [r]: A mode or manner of existing, and the state of continued being. [e] Free will [r]: The intuition, or philosophical doctrine, that one can control one's actions or freely choose among alternatives. [e] Identity (philosophy) [r]: Add brief definition or description Reasons and Persons [r]: Add brief definition or description Meta-ontology [r]: What constitutes an ontology and its methods [e] Modal worlds [r]: Add brief definition or description Modal realism [r]: Philosophical theory that claims modal possible worlds are in some sense real, notably advocated by David Lewis. [e] Monism [r]: Add brief definition or description Ontological commitment [r]: A general term used in both philosophy and in information systems to refer to the essential elements of an ontology. [e] Ontological pluralism [r]: The doctrine that there are different ways or modes of being [e] Ontology (philosophy) [r]: The branch of philosophy that considers what things exist, and what existence implies. [e]

Persistence through time [r]: Add brief definition or description Philosophy of Spinoza [r]: A systematic, logical, rational philosophy developed by Baruch Spinoza in the seventeenth century in Europe [e] Possible worlds [r]: Add brief definition or description Scientific realism [r]: Philosophical position that posits that the entities proposed by science are real (as opposed to an epistemic abstraction). [e] Bas van Fraassen [r]: Add brief definition or description Ontic strucutral realism [r]: Add brief definition or description Universals and Scientific Realism [r]: Add brief definition or description Subjective-objective dichotomy [r]: Add brief definition or description Time [r]: Add brief definition or description Presentism [r]: Add brief definition or description Universals [r]: Add brief definition or description Vagueness [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Aristotle [r]: Add brief definition or description
• David Armstrong [r]: Add brief definition or description
• David Lewis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Theology [r]: Add brief definition or description