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This book consists of articles from Wikia or other free sources online. Pages: 155. Chapters: Abstraction, Action, Affect, Analytic-synthetic distinction, Analytic proposition, Anamnesis, Anomalous monism, Apatheia, Architectonic, Argument, Authenticity, Authority, Biological naturalism, Bodymind, Casuistry, Categorization, Category error, Causality, Commensurability, Concepts, Conceptual framework, Concept and object, Concept formation, Concrete, Conscience, Construct, Devolution, Differance, Egocentrism, Egoism, Eliminative materialism, Epiphenomenon, Episteme, Essentially contested concept, Eudaemonia, Eudaimonia, Eudaimonism, Existence, Experience, Explanation, Extension, Face-to-face, Freedom, Functionalism, Genidentity, Goodness and value theory, Habitus, Heideggerian terminology, Individualism, Individuation, Innate idea, Institutional racism, Intension, Intentional stance, Is-ought problem, Knowledge, Logical argument, Metatheory, Moral absolutism, Morton's Fork, Multiple realizability, Negative and positive rights, Normative, Norm, Noumenon, Objectivity, Object, Operational definition, Other, Pain, Peak experiences, Percept, Person, Phenomenon, Philosophical analysis, Positivism(philosophy), Practical reason, Praxis, Property, Psychiagenia, Quietism, Reality, Ressentiment, Rogerian argument, Scientism, Self-awareness, Self, Semantic holism, Socratic method, Source evaluation, Speculative reason, Spirit, Subjectivity, Subject, Substance theory, Teleology, Theoretical reason, Transcendence, Transcendence, Transcendental idealism, Truth, Type physicalism, Universality, Universal, Value judgment, Virtue epistemology, Wisdom. Excerpt: Abstraction is the thinking process of reducing the information content of a concept, typically in order to retain only information which is relevant for a particular purpose. For example, abstracting a leather soccer ball to a ball retains only the information on general ball attributes and behaviour. Similarly, abstracting an...
