Glosario
- a (1) : all learning exclusive of technical precepts and practical arts (2) : the sciences and liberal arts exclusive of medicine, law, and theology <a doctor of philosophy> (3) : the 4-year college course of a major seminary
- b (1) archaic : physical science (2) : ethics
- c : a discipline comprising as its core logic, aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology
- a : pursuit of wisdom
- b : a search for a general understanding of values and reality by chiefly speculative rather than observational means
- c : an analysis of the grounds of and concepts expressing fundamental beliefs
- : the state of knowing : knowledge as distinguished from ignorance or misunderstanding
- a : a department of systematized knowledge as an object of study <the science of theology>
- b : something (as a sport or technique) that may be studied or learned like systematized knowledge <have it down to a science>
- : the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity
- a (1) : the fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association (2) : acquaintance with or understanding of a science, art, or technique
- b (1) : the fact or condition of being aware of something (2) : the range of one's information or understanding <answered to the best of my knowledge>
- c : the circumstance or condition of apprehending truth or fact through reasoning : cognition
- d : the fact or condition of having information or of being learned <a person of unusual knowledge>
- : a body of methods, rules, and postulates employed by a discipline : a particular procedure or set of procedures
- : the analysis of the principles or procedures of inquiry in a particular field
- : a procedure or process for attaining an object: as a (1) : a systematic procedure, technique, or mode of inquiry employed by or proper to a particular discipline or art (2) : a systematic plan followed in presenting material for instruction b (1) : a way, technique, or process of or for doing something (2) : a body of skills or techniques
- : a discipline that deals with the principles and techniques of scientific inquiry
- a : orderly arrangement, development, or classification : plan
- b : the habitual practice of orderliness and regularity
- capitalized : a dramatic technique by which an actor seeks to gain complete identification with the inner personality of the character being portrayed
- a : the act or process of inducting (as into office)
- b : an initial experience : initiation c : the formality by which a civilian is inducted into military service
- a (1) : inference of a generalized conclusion from particular instances — compare deduction 2a (2) : a conclusion arrived at by induction
- a : an act of taking away <deduction of legitimate business expenses>
- b : something that is or may be subtracted <deductions from his taxable income>
- a : the deriving of a conclusion by reasoning; specifically : inference in which the conclusion about particulars follows necessarily from general or universal premises — compare induction
- b : a conclusion reached by logical deduction
- a : an assumption or concession made for the sake of argument
- b : an interpretation of a practical situation or condition taken as the ground for action
- : a tentative assumption made in order to draw out and test its logical or empirical consequences
- : the antecedent clause of a conditional statement
- : the analysis of a set of facts in their relation to one another
- : the general or abstract principles of a body of fact, a science, or an art <music theory>
- a : a belief, policy, or procedure proposed or followed as the basis of action <her method is based on the theory that all children want to learn> b : an ideal or hypothetical set of facts, principles, or circumstances —often used in the phrase in theory <in theory, we have always advocated freedom for all>
- a : relating to or existing as an object of thought without consideration of independent existence —used chiefly in medieval philosophy
- b : of, relating to, or being an object, phenomenon, or condition in the realm of sensible experience independent of individual thought and perceptible by all observers : having reality independent of the mind <objective reality> <our reveries…are significantly and repeatedly shaped by our transactions with the objective world — Marvin Reznikoff> — compare subjective 3a
- c of a symptom of disease : perceptible to persons other than the affected individual — compare subjective 4c
- d : involving or deriving from sense perception or experience with actual objects, conditions, or phenomena <objective awareness> <objective data>
- : of, relating to, or constituting a subject: as a obsolete : of, relating to, or characteristic of one that is a subject especially in lack of freedom of action or in submissiveness
- : of or relating to the essential being of that which has substance, qualities, attributes, or relations
- a : characteristic of or belonging to reality as perceived rather than as independent of mind : phenomenal — compare objective 1b
- b : relating to or being experience or knowledge as conditioned by personal mental characteristics or states
- a) skill acquired by experience, study, or observation <the artof making friends
- : reliance on reason as the basis for establishment of religious truth
- a : a theory that reason is in itself a source of knowledge superior to and independent of sense perceptions
- b : a view that reason and experience rather than the nonrational are the fundamental criteria in the solution of problems
- a : a former school of medical practice founded on experience without the aid of science or theory
- a : the practice of relying on observation and experiment especially in the natural sciences
- b : a tenet arrived at empirically
- : a theory that all knowledge originates in experience
- a : a theory that theology and metaphysics are earlier imperfect modes of knowledge and that positive knowledge is based on natural phenomena and their properties and relations as verified by the empirical sciences
- a (1) : a theory that ultimate reality lies in a realm transcending phenomena (2) : a theory that the essential nature of reality lies in consciousness or reason
- b (1) : a theory that only the perceptible is real (2) : a theory that only mental states or entities are knowable
- a : the practice of forming ideals or living under their influence b : something that is idealized
- : literary or artistic theory or practice that affirms the preeminent value of imagination as compared with faithful copying of nature — compare realism
- a : an act of recognizing and noting a fact or occurrence often involving measurement with instruments <weather observations>
- b : a record or description so obtained
- obsolete : attentive care : heed
- : the condition of one that is observed <under observation at the hospital>
- a : the words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combining them used and understood by a community
- b (1) : audible, articulate, meaningful sound as produced by the action of the vocal organs (2) : a systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by the use of conventionalized signs, sounds, gestures, or marks having understood meanings (3) : the suggestion by objects, actions, or conditions of associated ideas or feelings <language in their very gesture — Shakespeare> (4) : the means by which animals communicate (5) : a formal system of signs and symbols (as FORTRAN or a calculus in logic) including rules for the formation and transformation of admissible expressions
- plural but sing or plural in constr : the study of the methodological principles of interpretation (as of the Bible)
- : a method or principle of interpretation
- : a general philosophical theory of signs and symbols that deals especially with their function in both artificially constructed and natural languages and comprises syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics
- : of or relating to meaning in language
- : of or relating to semantics
- : relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic <pragmatic men of power have had no time or inclination to deal with…social morality — K. B. Clark>
- : relating to or being in accordance with philosophical pragmatism
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