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• Experience
  A famous [[metaphor]] for [[philosophy]] from the opening pages of the opus '''''Process and Reality''''' (1929) i <blockquote>"Philosophy begins on the ground with the concrete reality of lived experience. '''Experience''' provides us with the raw data
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• Concrete
  ...opposite of ‘[[abstract]]’ The noun sense ‘[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete building material]’ dates from the mid 19th cent. ...not [[abstract]]: concrete objects like stones | it exists as a physically concrete form.
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• Realism
  ...[[legal]] use) that concerns [[things]] and not people (1283), [[actual]], concrete (early 14th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), [[material]], [[objective]] ...[belief]] that [[reality]] exists independently of observers, whether in [[philosophy]] itself or in the applied [[arts]] and [[sciences]]. In this broad sense i
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• Abstraction
  ...dter's illustration of that ambiguity, with a progression from abstract to concrete in Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979): *'''''[[Concrete]]'''''
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• Universal
  ...he Rights of Man and of the Citizen]], for those heavily influenced by the philosophy of the [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] and its conception of a [[hum A '''universal proposition''' is one that affirms a [[property (philosophy)|property]] of all the members of a [[set]]. For instance, the proposition
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• Existentialism
  ...xponent in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Jaspers Karl Jaspers]; as a philosophy of human [[decision]], its foremost representative was [https://en.wikipedi ...ilosophies, in both style and content, as too [[abstract]] and remote from concrete human experience.
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• Thought Form
  ...retation]] of the Tibetan concept. Its concept is related to the Western [[philosophy]] and [[practice]] of [[magick]]. ...isualization]], in very much the same [[manner]] as an [[architect]] gives concrete expression in three dimensions to [...] his [[blueprint]]".
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• Quality
  ==Philosophy== ....org/wiki/Metaphysics_of_Quality Metaphysics of Quality³]. In contemporary philosophy, the idea of qualities and especially how to distinguish certain kinds of q
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• Transcendental
  ...[Ancient Philosophy]], one in [[Medieval Philosophy]], and one in [[Modern Philosophy]]. In the second [[meaning]], which originated in Medieval philosophy, concepts are ''transcendental'' if they are broader than what falls within
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• 2021-05-21-Cosmic Realities, Mind Meanings, Spirit Values
  ...aterial man to grasp the reality of spiritual values and to comprehend the philosophy of universe meanings.”'' ([[0:12|UB, 0:12.13]]) ...an mind to grasp the seemingly abstract concepts of what are, in fact, the concrete realities of meanings and values — crucial elements to their spiritual gr
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• Process
  ...[[meaning]] involved in the phrase "all things flow" is one chief task of philosophy. All actually existing "things" change due to their temporality, but the me ...God's abstract essence is absolute, necessary, and eternal, while God's [[concrete]] actuality is everlastingly relative or contingent. The unchanging pole of
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• Rational
  In [[philosophy]], rationality and reason are the key methods used to analyse the data gath ...th the comprehensiveness of its underlying considerations, and in which no concrete objective is presumed to be rational in any but a relative sense of the ter
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• Philosophy
  ...y of philosophy might include (but are not limited to): How can changes in philosophy be accounted for historically? What drives the development of thought in it ...ern]], [[religious]] or [[secular]] — have had their own unique schools of philosophy, arrived at through both inheritance and through independent discovery. Suc
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• Revelation
  ...faith". Consequently, Tillich's orientation is apologetic, seeking to make concrete theological answers that are applicable to ordinary daily life. This contri [[Category: Philosophy]]
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/Chapter 1
  ...his self-contempt; and he learns this self-contempt from his consolation, philosophy. After somersaulting onto his own shoulders to shout his message to the wor ...ent philosophy accelerated the descent towards the concrete insofar as the concrete was in some ways brought to power with the revolutionary bourgeoisie. From
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• Essence
  ==Philosophy== In [[philosophy]], '''essence''' is the attribute or set of attributes that make an object
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• Theory
  ...[The Sciences|sciences]] (both natural and social) and the other used in [[philosophy]], [[mathematics]], [[logic]], and across other fields in the [[humanities] ...of rules, generally as a first step in testing or applying the theory in a concrete situation. Theories are abstract and [[concept]]ual, and to this end they a
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• Error
  ...ning]]s and usages [[relative]] to how it is [[concept]]ually applied. The concrete meaning of the [[Latin]] word error is "wandering" or "straying". To the co [[Category: Philosophy]]
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• 1999-12-14-Paradox & Irony
  ...[[irony]]. In this [[manner]] they appear related much as the concept of [[philosophy]] and the [[action]] of [[religion]]. ...spoke in [[parables]] often wrapped in [[paradox]], and when we beheld the concrete [[illustration]] of his teaching, it appeared as [[irony]]? Consider his st
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• Shelling's and Bakhtin's Process Thinking
  ...with Alfred North Whitehead and his interpreters only, and reveals process philosophy to be a broader and richer tradition than has generally been acknowledged. Keywords— process philosophy, Schelling, Bakhtin, Dostoevsky, ethics, art, being.
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