speculative philosophy

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Philosophy, especially traditional metaphysical philosophy, which makes claims that cannot be verified by everyday experience of the physical world or by a scientific method

Speculative philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted.

A particular philosophical school, system, or work representative of this kind of philosophy

In the period before the wars, some of the speculative philosophies, including pragmatism, developed supernaturalist theologies and idealistic metaphysics, while others discarded these traditional views in favor of sweeping Spencerian or Bergsonian theories about nature.

speculative philosophy

    Hyphenation

    spe·cu·la·tive phi·los·o·phy

    Turkish pronunciation

    spekyılıtîv fıläsıfi

    Pronunciation

    /ˈspekyələtəv fəˈläsəfē/ /ˈspɛkjələtɪv fəˈlɑːsəfiː/
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