English words for 'Lockean philosophy.'
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- John Locke (1632 – 1704); an influential English philosopher of the Enlightenment and social contract theorist.
- A town in Cayuga County, New York, named after John Locke.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Elkhart County, Indiana.
- A township in Ingham County, Michigan.
- An unincorporated community and historic district in Sacramento County, California.
- An English surname — famously held by:
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- (countable) Initialism of electrical engineer.
- (software) Initialism of execution environment
- Initialism of Easter egg.
- Initialism of electrical engineering.
- (uncountable, psychiatry) Initialism of expressed emotion.
- the branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication
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- an adherent of philosophical pragmatism
- a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of their actions
- One who acts in response to particular situations rather than upon abstract ideals; one who is willing to ignore their ideals to accomplish goals.
- One who acts in a practical or straightforward manner; one who is pragmatic; one who values practicality or pragmatism.
- (politics) An advocate of pragmatism.
- (linguistics, uncommon) One who studies pragmatics.
- One who belongs to the philosophic school of pragmatism; one who holds that the meaning of beliefs is the actions they entail, and that the truth of those beliefs consists in the actions they entail, successfully leading a believer to their goals.
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- (philosophy, metaphysics, theology) Necessarianism, especially as espoused by Joseph Priestley.
- (politics, law) The principle that, in a situation of emergency or exigent circumstance, a state may legitimately act in ways that would normally be illegal.
- (politics, international law) The principle that a state in immediate peril to its existence, from a situation not of its own doing, may in extremis be justified in violating a right of another state.
- (law) A principle whereby a normally criminal act is justified by the necessity of preserving something of greater utilitarian value than that lost or sacrificed; not to be confused with self-defence.
- (politics, law) The principle that the laws, of governance in action, should be deemed valid insofar as they do not contradict the constitution. Validated on the basis that maintenance of government is of greater utilitarian value than maintenance of the law.
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- of or relating to Rene Descartes or his works
- (mathematics, cartography) Of, or pertaining to, co-ordinates based on mutually orthogonal axes.
- Of, or pertaining to, Descartes, his mathematical methods, or his philosophy, especially with regard to its emphasis on logical analysis and its mechanistic interpretation of physical nature.
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- (chemistry) Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines.
- Of two things: that cannot coexist; not congruous because of differences; unable to function together due to dissimilarities.
- used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect
- not compatible
- not in keeping with what is correct or proper
- incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification
- of words so related that one contrasts with the other
- not easy to combine harmoniously
- used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture
- not suitable to your tastes or needs
- not compatible with other facts
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- (philosophy) The doctrine of free will, as opposed to necessitarianism.
- (economics, philosophy, politics) A political philosophy maintaining that all persons are the absolute owners of their own lives, and should be free to do whatever they wish with their persons or property, provided they allow others that same liberty.
- an ideological belief in freedom of thought, speech and action
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- an adherent of philosophical pragmatism
- a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of their actions
- One who acts in response to particular situations rather than upon abstract ideals; one who is willing to ignore their ideals to accomplish goals.
- One who acts in a practical or straightforward manner; one who is pragmatic; one who values practicality or pragmatism.
- (politics) An advocate of pragmatism.
- (linguistics, uncommon) One who studies pragmatics.
- One who belongs to the philosophic school of pragmatism; one who holds that the meaning of beliefs is the actions they entail, and that the truth of those beliefs consists in the actions they entail, successfully leading a believer to their goals.
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- (philosophy, metaphysics, theology) Necessarianism, especially as espoused by Joseph Priestley.
- (politics, law) The principle that, in a situation of emergency or exigent circumstance, a state may legitimately act in ways that would normally be illegal.
- (politics, international law) The principle that a state in immediate peril to its existence, from a situation not of its own doing, may in extremis be justified in violating a right of another state.
- (law) A principle whereby a normally criminal act is justified by the necessity of preserving something of greater utilitarian value than that lost or sacrificed; not to be confused with self-defence.
- (politics, law) The principle that the laws, of governance in action, should be deemed valid insofar as they do not contradict the constitution. Validated on the basis that maintenance of government is of greater utilitarian value than maintenance of the law.
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- of or relating to Rene Descartes or his works
- (mathematics, cartography) Of, or pertaining to, co-ordinates based on mutually orthogonal axes.
- Of, or pertaining to, Descartes, his mathematical methods, or his philosophy, especially with regard to its emphasis on logical analysis and its mechanistic interpretation of physical nature.
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- (chemistry) Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines.
- Of two things: that cannot coexist; not congruous because of differences; unable to function together due to dissimilarities.
- used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect
- not compatible
- not in keeping with what is correct or proper
- incapable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification
- of words so related that one contrasts with the other
- not easy to combine harmoniously
- used especially of solids or solutions; incapable of blending into a stable homogeneous mixture
- not suitable to your tastes or needs
- not compatible with other facts
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- (philosophy) The doctrine of free will, as opposed to necessitarianism.
- (economics, philosophy, politics) A political philosophy maintaining that all persons are the absolute owners of their own lives, and should be free to do whatever they wish with their persons or property, provided they allow others that same liberty.
- an ideological belief in freedom of thought, speech and action