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Concepts in metaphysics
- MindThe mind is the totality of psychological phenomena, encompassing both conscious and unconscious states, yet its precise definition remains one of the most…
- Value (ethics)In 1992, a philosopher named Stanley Riukas published an article titled Inherent and Instrumental Values in Ethics. He argued that some objects are both good…
- MinDThe word mind originates from the Old English term meaning memory. This ancient root expanded over centuries to cover all mental capacities including…
- Free willA biker performing a dirt jump illustrates how some interpretations view free will as the capacity to choose between different possible courses of action.
- ThoughtThe Thinker by Auguste Rodin stands in the garden of the Musée Rodin, Paris. This statue captures a moment where thought occurs independently of direct…
- InformationThe English word information emerged from Middle French enformacion, which itself traced back to the Latin root informatiō.
- SoulThe 8th century Vespasian Psalter records the Old English word seola meaning self, life, or animate existence. This earliest attestation anchors a concept…
- TimeTime is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future.
- SpacePlato wrote the Timaeus in antiquity, asking whether space exists as a container or merely as a relationship between things.