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Moral and Political Philosophy Aesthetics Christology Ecclesiology Epistemology Human Person Logic Metaphysics Moral Theology Philosophy of Nature

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Moral and Political Philosophy Aesthetics Christology Ecclesiology Epistemology Human Person Logic Metaphysics Moral Theology Philosophy of Nature

Evidence
That which one takes to provide a reason or motive for a judgment.
Evident
Manifest, clear, true.
Idealism
In general, the doctrine according to which our knowledge is confined to the content of our own minds.
Ignorance
Lack of knowledge.
Judgment
1. The second operation of the intellect whereby one affirms or denies something about reality. More precisely, it is an operation that relates two concepts to each other either by way of affirming th...
Knowledge
1. A state of the intellect or of a bodily sense in which it, in some respect, corresponds to how something in reality, towards which it is directed, is. 2. Cognitively possessing something, either by...
Motive
(also called Motivation).— The reason for the judgment that one makes. This can include evidence, the testimony of witnesses, social pressure, emotional dispositions, etc.
Nominalism
The doctrine according to which universals (and, therefore, essences or natures) are merely names and have no existence in reality or in the mind. In its radical form, nominalism holds that everything...
Phantasm
An image produced by the imagination of what we perceive by our external senses or of what is derived from their perceptions.
Practical
Terminating in an operation or action of human making or doing.

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