Glossary extracted starting with automatic seeds, with PTM for the domain phi and language EN
| ontology | the study of being, of the ultimate nature of things. |
| realism | 1 |
| positivism | a philosophical view which recognizes only those things that can be empirically verified, or known directly by observation. |
| absolute | 1 |
| ecumenism | a movement providing worldwide unity among religions through cooperative understanding |
| monad | PRIMORDIAL MATTER "Primordial matter is matter proper |
| pantheism | the doctrine that God is inherent in all things, that every particular thing in the universe is a manifestation of God's essence |
| determinism | Description: UPDATE: I no longer consider determinism to be equivalent to mechanism |
| flipspeak | The use of terminology in such a way that words mean the opposite of their literal or traditional meaning |
| first cause | the beginning of an elaborate series of causes, often identified with God. |
| elements | basic components or constituents of things; Aristotle recognized four: fire, water, earth, air. |