Philosophy Vocabulary - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The branch of philosophy that studies principles relating to right and wrong conduct.	Ethics	74%
The branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and appreciation of art, beauty and good taste.	Aesthetics \| Esthetics	73%
The branch of philosophy that studies government.	{Political} philosophy	64%
The doctrine that all actions are determined by the current state and immutable laws of the universe, with no possibility of choice.	Determinism \| Fatalism	62%
The branch of philosophy that studies the nature, origin, and limits of human knowledge.	Epistemology	61%
The branch of philosophy that studies argumentation and reason.	Logic	58%
A doctrine which holds that the only or, at least, the most reliable source of human knowledge is experience, especially perception by means of the physical senses.	Empiricism	56%
The branch of philosophy that studies reality and being.	Metaphysics	54%
The doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience.	Rationalism	50%
A twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.	Existentialism	49%
A school of philosophy popularized during the Roman Empire that emphasized reason as a means of understanding the natural state of things, or logos, and as a means of freeing oneself from emotional distress.	Stoicism	46%
The theory, especially in ethics or aesthetics, that conceptions of truth and moral values are not absolute but are relative to the persons or groups holding them.	Relativism	39%
The doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations.	Naturalism	31%
The idea that the self is all that exists or that can be proven to exist.	Solipsism	29%
The doctrine that knowledge and value are dependent on and limited by your subjective experience.	Subjectivism	25%
The idea that beliefs are identified with the actions of a believer, and the truth of beliefs with success of those actions in securing a believer's goals; the doctrine that ideas must be looked at in terms of their practical effects and consequences.	Pragmatism	20%
The study of the purpose or design of natural occurrences.	Teleology	17%
A philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols.	Semiotics	16%
The philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names.	Platonism	14%
The branch of philosophy that studies valuation within ethics and aesthetics.	Axiology	13%
The doctrine that life involves some immaterial "vital force", and cannot be explained scientifically.	Vitalism	11%
The doctrine that (since certainty is unattainable) probability is a sufficient basis for belief and action.	Probabilism	9%
The doctrine that some skills or abilities are innate and not learned.	Nativism	4%
In its strictest sense, the doctrine that holds that absolutely everything — even things we normally think of as physical — is mental.	Mentalism	3%
A philosophy that attempts to define all scientific concepts in terms of specified operations or procedures of observation and measurement.	Operationalism	2%

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