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ABSTRACTION
[L:100] One of three logical acts of the understanding "by which concepts are generated as to their form", the others being comparison and reflection. Abstraction is "the segregation of everything else by which given presentations differ....the most abstract concept is that which has nothing in common with any concept differing from it. This is the concept of something; for what is different from it is nothing".
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A posteriori know... | A priori knowledge
| A priori, analyti... | A priori, theory ... | A priori,presuppo... | ABSOLUTE
| ABSTRACTION
| ABSURDITY
| AFFINITY
| ALTERATION (CHANGE)
| AMPHIBOLY
| ANALOGY OF EXPERI... | ANALYTIC
| ANALYTIC METHOD
| ANALYTIC UNITY OF... | ANTECEDENT PROPOS... | ANTHROPOLOGY
| ANTICIPATION OF P... | ANTINOMY
| APOAGOGIC
| APPEARANCE
| APPREHENSION
| APRIORI
| ARCHETYPE
| ARCHITECTONIC
| ATTENTION
| ATTRIBUTE
| AUTHENTICITY
| AXIOMS OF INTUITION
| Abbott, Lyman
| Abdera
| Abelard, Peter
| Abelson, Robert
| Abernathy, John
| Absolute
| Absolute idealism
| Absolute theism
| Absolutes
| Absolutism
| Abstract ideas
| Acquaintance
| Act agapism
| Act deontology
| Act teleology
| Act utilitarianism
| Action
| Action theory
| Adams
| Adams, Jay E
| Adams, Thomas
| Aenesidemus
| Aesthetic hedonism
| Aesthetic humanism
| Aesthetic stage
| Aesthetics
| Aeterni Patris
| Agapism
| Agapistic ethics
| Agnostic
| Agnosticism
| Albertus Magnus
| Albigensians
| Albright, Jacob
| Alesius, Alexander
| Alexander, Archib... | Alexander, James W.
| Alexander, Samuel
| Alleine, Joseph
| Allon, Henry
| Altizer, Thomas J... | Altruism
| Altruistic
| Altruistic hedonism
| Ambrose
| Ambrose, Isaac
| Amish
| Ammann, Jacob
| Anabaptist
| Analogical predic... | Analysis
| Analytic philosophy
| Analytical
| Analytical philos... | Analytical statem... | Anamnesis
| Anarchism
| Anaxagoras
| Anaximander
| Anaximenes
| Anderson, James
| Anderson, John R.
| Andrewes, Lancelot
| Angier, John
| Animal faith
| Anselm
| Anthony of Padua
| Anthropology
| Anthropomorphism
| Antifallibilism |
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