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PHILOSOPHY PERIODIC IDEAS guide you through your journey in life. The philosophy notions foster critical thinking and provide insights on how to think about the world. The philosophy concepts provide wisdom and mental tools for your endeavors.
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The dialectic method is an exploratory process using dialogue to ask and answer questions, and find contradictions to improve a hypothesis. |
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Empiricism states that knowledge comes from our senses. Evidence discovered through sensory experience is the basis of our knowledge. |
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Problem solving is practical thinking to resolve a problem. The seven basic steps are formulation, root causes, knowledge, ideation, selection, reasoning and evaluation. |
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Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without conscious reasoning. |
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Historical philosophy is a metaphysical naturalism stating that knowledge arises from the interaction of the mind and its environment. |
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Pragmatism asserts that ideas have merit based on the practical consequences they have in everyday human experience. |
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Analytical philosophy encompasses formal logic, conceptual analysis, deduction and induction. |
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Existentialism is the study of the human individual. |
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Hermeneutics is the study of how humans interpret the world. |
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The public sphere is a place where people can congregate and freely discuss and identify societal problems. |
