Meaning:

A doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy

Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
philosophical doctrine; philosophical theory
Hypernyms ("philosophical doctrine" is a kind of...):
doctrine; ism; philosophical system; philosophy; school of thought (a belief (or system of
beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "philosophical doctrine"):
aesthetic; esthetic ((philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful)
nominalism ((philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have
nothing in common but their name)
operationalism ((philosophy) the doctrine that the meaning of a proposition consists of the
operations involved in proving or applying it)
Platonism; realism ((philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist
independent of their names)
pragmatism ((philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge
and meaning and value)
probabilism ((philosophy) the doctrine that (since certainty is unattainable) probability is a
sufficient basis for belief and action)
rationalism ((philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to
experience)
naive realism; realism ((philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to
exist when not perceived)
relativism ((philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that all criteria of judgment are relative to the
individuals and situations involved)

Scholasticism (the system of philosophy dominant in medieval Europe; based on Aristotle and
the Church Fathers)
semiology; semiotics ((philosophy) a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols)
sensationalism; sensualism ((philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for
what is good)
solipsism ((philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist)
Stoicism ((philosophy) the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the
ancient Greek philosopher Zeno)
subjectivism ((philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge and value are dependent on and limited
by your subjective experience)
Daoism; Taoism (philosophical system developed by of Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a
simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events)
teleology ((philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes)
traditionalism (the doctrine that all knowledge was originally derived by divine revelation and
that it is transmitted by traditions)
Neoplatonism (a system of philosophical and theological doctrines composed of elements of
Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism; its most distinctive doctrine holds that the
first principle and source of reality transcends being and thought and is naturally unknowable)
naturalism ((philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without
recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations)
Aristotelianism ((philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics
and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science)
conceptualism (the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the
existence of a mental entity that mediates the application)
Confucianism (the teachings of Confucius emphasizing love for humanity; high value given to
learning and to devotion to family (including ancestors); peace; justice; influenced the traditional
culture of China)
deconstruction; deconstructionism (a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or
film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface
meaning)

empiricism; empiricist philosophy; sensationalism ((philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge

derives from experience)
environmentalism (the philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity
in determining intellectual growth)
existential philosophy; existentialism; existentialist philosophy ((philosophy) a 20th-century
philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus
responsible for what they make of themselves)
determinism ((philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable
consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free
will)
formalism ((philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical)
statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form
that has useful applications)
hereditarianism (the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in
determining intellectual growth)
idealism ((philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality)
intuitionism ((philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired primarily by intuition)
logicism ((philosophy) the philosophical theory that all of mathematics can be derived from
formal logic)
materialism; physicalism ((philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality)
mechanism ((philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms
of physical or biological causes)
mentalism ((philosophy) a doctrine that mind is the true reality and that objects exist only as
aspects of the mind's awareness)
nativism ((philosophy) the philosophical theory that some ideas are innate)
vitalism ((philosophy) a doctrine that life is a vital principle distinct from physics and chemistry)