Philosophy terms

What word means for a specific purpose? It is also an extraneous hypothesis to a theory to save it from being falsified.

• Determinism

• Ad Hoc

• Ad Infinitum

• Nihilism

Repeating over and over or seemingly without limit.

• Ad Infinitum

• Ad Hoc

• A Priori

• Solipsism

The philosophical theory that the self is all that exists. The quality of being selfish.

• Solipsism

• Existentialism

• Determinism

• Nihilism

To be selfless or to act in the best interest of others.

• Empiricism

• Fideism

• A Priori

• Altruism

A feeling of deep anxiety or dread

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• Humanism
• A Posteriori
• Angst
• Altruism

Reasoning that works backwards from effect to cause or involving reasoning from facts or particulars to general principles

• A Posteriori

• A Priori

• Fideism

• Relativism

Knowledge that can be acquired without experience

• A Posteriori

• A Priori

• Existentialism

• Solipsism

A person's right to act on their own or self-govern

• Empiricism

• Humanism

• Autonomy

• Altruism

The idea that all events are determined by faith or existing causes

• Relativism

• Fideism

• Empiricism

• Determinism

A theory that all knowledge comes from the experience and observations

• Empiricism

• Existentialism

• Nihilism

• Relativism