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{{short description|State of puzzlement or expression of doubt, in philosophy and rhetoric}} ...s a conundrum or state of puzzlement. In [[rhetoric]], it is a declaration of doubt, made for rhetorical purpose and often feigned. ...

{{Short description|Study of time}} ...xpressed by the Sciences and Humanities|year=1981|publisher=The University of Massachusetts Press|location=Amherst|isbn=0-87023-337-8|first=J. T.|last=Fr ...

{{short description|Active acquisition of information from a primary source}} ...be [[qualitative property|qualitative]], that is, the absence or presence of a property is noted and the observed phenomenon described, or [[quantitativ ...

{{short description|Family of views in the philosophy of mind}} {{Distinguish|Theory of computation|Pancomputationalism}} ...

{{short description|Philosophical theory regarding temporal ordering of events}} ...cite book |last= Craig|first= W. L.|date= 2000|title= The Tenseless Theory of Time: A Critical Examination|location= Dordrecht|publisher= Kluwer Academic ...

{{Short description|Philosophical idea of things impossible to know}} ...'' know. Some related concepts include the [[halting problem]], the limits of knowledge, the unknown unknowns, and chaos theory. ...

| birth_place = [[Meckesheim]], [[Grand Duchy of Baden]], [[German Empire]] ...ical University of Dresden]]<br/>[[University of Vienna]]<br/>[[University of Southern California]] ...

...ntifical Academy of Sciences. ''Evolving Concepts of Nature''. Proceedings of the Plenary Session, 24–28 October 2014, Acta 23, Vatican City, 2015. [http ...lish version]. In: Kirchhoff, Thomas (ed.): Online Encyclopedia Philosophy of Nature / Online Lexikon Naturphilosophie. Heidelberg University Press. http ...

...s and sentences. The study of concepts has served as an important flagship of an emerging interdisciplinary approach, cognitive science.<ref>{{Cite web|u ...tries/concepts/|encyclopedia=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab at Stanford University|access-date=6 November 2012|author=Eric ...

{{short description|Fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society}} ...almer |title=Toward A Theory of Cultural Linguistics |publisher=University of Texas Press |year=1996 |page=114 |isbn=978-0-292-76569-6}}</ref> ...

.../openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/15616/3/ANNALS-final.pdf |journal=Academy of Management Annals |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=5–64 |doi=10.5465/19416520.201 ...phy|editor-last=Zalta|editor-first=Edward N.|edition=Summer 2018|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University|access-date=2019-12-05|last2=Beall|first2 ...

{{Short description|Subfield of philosophical ethics}} ...is a sub-field of [[ethics|philosophical ethics]], and refers to the study of natural objects from their [[aesthetics|aesthetical]] perspective. ...

{{short description|Conceptions of knowledge and understanding in Indian religions}} ..., for the [[Vedas]] demand understanding.<ref>{{cite book|title=Philosophy of the Upanishads|author=Archibald Edward Gough|publisher=Trubner & Co.|page=[ ...

...hem makes little sense: they are desirable for their own sake irrespective of their possible instrumental value. The classic names ''instrumental'' and ' The ''Oxford Handbook of Value Theory'' provides three modern definitions of intrinsic and instrumental value: ...

...ook|last=Miner|first=Robert|year=2017|chapter=Gay science and the practice of perspectivism|title=Nietzsche and Montaigne|location=Cham|publisher=[[Palgr ...an instead be interpreted as holding certain interpretations (such as that of perspectivism itself) to be definitively true.<ref name=Nehamas1998/> ...

...poetics also looks into symmetries produced by nature and the construction of imaginary situations by certain species.]] ...oki|first=Katya|title=The Indispensable Excess of the Aesthetic: Evolution of Sensibility in Nature|publisher=Lexington Books|year=2015|isbn=978-1-4985-0 ...

...e. Important topics in this field include the questions of what the nature of these mental states is, for example, whether they have to be propositional, ...not shared by other scientists. It is often held that there are two kinds of evidence: ''intellectual evidence'' or what is [[self-evident]] and ''[[emp ...

{{Short description|Practice of obscuring information}} ...dge]]; and (2) deliberate obscurity — a [[wikt:recondite|recondite]] style of writing characterized by deliberate vagueness.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https:// ...

{{Short description|Framework of distances and directions}} {{about|the general framework of distance and direction|the space beyond Earth's atmosphere|Outer space|the ...

...e="Yockey">{{cite book|title=Information Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life|author=Hubert P. Yockey|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2005 The concept of ''information'' is relevant or connected to various concepts,<ref name="Flo ...