Synonyms and Antonyms for philosophical-theory
1. philosophical theory (n.)
a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy
- physicalism
- conceptualism
- probabilism
- philosophical doctrine
- Platonism
- school of thought
- mechanism
- doctrine
- formalism
- mentalism
- philosophy
- Neoplatonism
- idealism
- nominalism
- semiotics
- empiricism
- environmentalism
- pragmatism
- semiology
- rationalism
- relativism
- Scholasticism
- nativism
- sensationalism
- Aristotelianism
- hereditarianism
- existentialism
- deconstructionism
- esthetic
- empiricist philosophy
- logicism
- deconstruction
- traditionalism
- solipsism
- operationalism
- sensualism
- naive realism
- materialism
- intuitionism
- existentialist philosophy
- existential philosophy
- Taoism
- teleology
- Daoism
- Stoicism
- peripateticism
- subjectivism
- vitalism
- realism
- ism
- aesthetic
- determinism
- philosophical system
- Confucianism
- naturalism
2. philosophical (adj.)
of or relating to philosophy or philosophers
3. philosophical (adj.)
characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment
4. theory-based (adj.)
based in theory rather than experiment
5. M-theory (n.)
(particle physics) a theory that involves an eleven-dimensional universe in which the weak and strong forces and gravity are unified and to which all the string theories belong
6. theory (n.)
a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena
7. theory (n.)
a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena
8. theory (n.)
a belief that can guide behavior
