A Glossary of Philosophical and Scientific Terms

Posted on May 13, 2024 in Philosophy and ethics

  • Anthropology:
    science esutduai man in its entirety without forgetting all the plurality of elements that behave: as a biological organism and a member of society
  • Minus: operaracion mental derevivar consisting of one or more propositions, one or more following the laws logicas.Verificar a hypothesis the greatest possible number of cases
  • Epistemology, or Theory of Gnoseologia KNOWLEDGE: Part of the philosophy that is as we perceive or know the reality
  • Ethics: A part of philosophy whose goal is the analysis of the human experience we call moral behavior. Is concerned with understanding the moral reasons, thinking because some actions are considered good and some not
  • Philosophy: Etymologically is friends saber.Actividad of filososfos. Pythagoras is credited with first use of this word for the activity aludidir seeker of truth, both theoretical knowledge practico.A throughout their history has been considered in various ways, emphasizing one or another of its rasgos.Partes :
  • Ontology or Metaphysics: description of reality, the being of what is or eiste
  • Epistemology or theory of knowledge: description of how we perceive or know that reality
  • Antropopologia: conception of the human
  • Ethics: moral values the behavior
  • Politics: examines different forms of government
  • Psychology: studying the human psyche
  • Reset: assesses the relationship between man and the beauty
  • History of philosophy: It’s rebuilding efforts of philosophers from their own life and historical circumstances have attempted to articulate a knowledge from which to understand the complex world that has every one he lives
  • Induction: HECOS observed from several generalizes a property common to them
  • Logos: girega word also means reason and speech, used mainly to describe with one word the reason that both the subject hablra or plan as the reason entered in the universe
  • Myth: fabulous stories trace the origin of the world and human activity to the work of gods or heroes.Sirvio loop of unity and cohesion of archaic societies
  • Politics: It covers everything about life in a society wing organizada.Estudia different forms of government and susu basics, nature of power, different modes of social organization
  • Abstractions: mental operation in which isolate the common issues to multiple and things and meet at a concept
  • Agnosticism: It denies the possibility for man, that the intellect can know the existence of God, neither confirms nor denies that God exists
  • Atheism: the doctrine or attitude that denies the existence of god
  • Change (Aristotle) is the transition of power (which may be) to act (what is)
  • Deism: religious and philosophical doctrine that supports the existence of one God, creator of the universe and cause the lesya governing it, and rejects any supernatural revelations continue to act in the world after the creation
  • Determinimso: Attaches whatever happens to the action of the causal laws governing universo.Como result could see the world at any time Humanao determinado.Si being rigid was only by these laws tendira freedom, responsibility would therefore be po, or moral
  • Skeptic: A person who thinks we can know nothing with certainty or that there are universal values.
  • Epistemological idealism:
    Philosophical doctrine conceives reality and seeks to explain as much reason idea.Potencia
  • Innate ideas: ideas are intrinsic to the human mind, ie that have not been acquired by the universal notions about experiendica.Se
  • Idealist metaphysical or spiritual reality ocmo conceives an idea to develop dynamically as real beings, and certain consturye reality to history
  • Metaphysics materialistic conceives reality as matter
  • Monism: Supports one single principle or a fundamental reality of the origin of everything, is opposed to dualism and pluralismo.Afirma that being huamano is unitary, a single reality, material or spiritual
  • Monotheism: Affirms the existence of a slo dios.Se opposed to polytheism and pantheism
  • Pantheism: A doctrine argues that all things are god
  • Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: It is impossible to know to see the position and velocity of an electron
  • Racionalimso: Reason is the only power that can lead man to the knowledge of the truth that the laws of reason are the objects Mimas queresmos conocer.El origin of ideas not in experience but in reason
  • Substance: Reality, for Aristotle, endowed with material and form
  • Theism: The existence of a personal god and provident creator (still acuta in the world after creation)


  • Argumentation: Reasoning expressed through language
  • Fallacy: specious arguments that look like valid argument because it contains any error, any violation of the rules of correct arguments
  • Logic: the science of reasoning ce correction
  • Formal Logic: Study the structure of the arguments regardless of content, especially the aitende syntactic dimenstion
  • Logica informal studies the correct ways of arguing in response to different content
  • Paradox: Statement amazing, astonishing, confusing, statements Seri posed problems to decide on its truth or falsity
  • Proposicon or statement: Prayer that can be true or falssa
  • Reasoning: From certain statements to obtain new ones, ie, draw conclusions from some premises
  • Manichaean Manicheism He who follows the philosophical and religious doctrine derived from the teachings of Persian manes.Postulo two principles of the world that was equal, eternal and antagonists: the good and evil
  • Revelation: Understanding God conveys truths that are inaccessible to human reason
  • Cosmos: World, Greek universo.En its original meaning was orden.El Terminio was applied to the whole world conceived as ordered
  • Reformation religious Movimietno XVI for a large part of Europe was subtracted from the obedience of the pope, giving birth to the Protestant churches
  • Roman Style predominant in Europe in centuries XI, XII and XII of the Middle Ages
  • Gotico: Artstyle happened to the Roman, began at the end of XII followed in the XIII and XIV are its main manifestation catedrales.Edad half
  • Renaissance cultural movement which ends the call late Middle Ages and which generally involves a recreation of humanistiscos values, aesthetic and thought of classical antiquity
  • Experiment: Operation and control of an artificial phenomenon, designed to descubiri, verify or prove a scientific hypothesis
  • Science: Knowledge of principles and causes of things getting treated razonamiento.Puede through empirical science or formal science
  • Formal science: those whose claims do not say go upon facts observables.Partir of universally accepted axioms, one can deduce all knowledge
  • Empirical science: In her statements relate to events that happen in the world and are observable. Explcar try to establish the facts and laws and theories that can predict what will happen in certain circunstancias.Parten of observation
  • Concept: Idea on a general and abstract concepts objeto.Los are terms that are part of the knowledge and the vocabulary of science ciencia.Cuando tries to explain reality, has to resort to certain terms that are called concepts
  • Hypothesis: a tentative response to direct specific research problema.Papel
  • Laws: are shown hipotesisi