An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Glossary

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Glossary

archetype

prototype or standard model of an entity

causality

the original cause of something

empiricism

The philosophical concept that knowledge is only derived through experience

Epistemology

the study of the means which knowledge is arrived at

innate

inherently acquired rather than gained from experience

falsity

Fallacious or inherently wrong

duality

Conceptually existing of two divided and usually oppositional realities

duration

the length of time that something lasts

immensity

a state of enormity surpassing the norm

metaphysics

Philosophical discipline studying the nature of reality

rationalism

philosophy of knowledge which is derived from reason

nominalism

theory which subscribes that reality is endowed in the particular rather than the universal

perception

meaning derived through the senses

skepticism

doubt about the validity of knowledge and meaning

succession

two or more things which occur as the result of one following the other

primitive

unsophisticated; referring to the earliest stages of an evolutionary process

Corollary

A consequence of something in concert

inference

a conclusion based on indirect evidence

remorse

profound regret for the committing of a sin

aesthetics

philosophy of beauty and taste

abstract

existing in a non-temporal state

correspondence

having a relation to different entity

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