Philosophy

41 primes originate from Philosophy. 38 more draw from it as a secondary origin.

Primary members (41)

Primes whose canonical origin is Philosophy.

• Abstraction — Focus on core elements.
• Balance — Even distribution of elements.
• Boundary — Defines system limits.
• Causality — Cause-effect relationships.
• Classification — Sorting entities into discrete categories by explicit rules, turning unbounded variation into a finite, reusable map for downstream reasoning and action.
• Commensurability — Diverse values expressed in common metric enabling comparison.
• Consent — Voluntary agreement.
• Counterfactual Reasoning — Hypothetical alternatives.
• Counterfactuals — Alternate hypothetical scenarios.
• Deductive Reasoning — General to specific conclusions.
• Dialectic — Thesis–antithesis–synthesis reasoning.
• Dialectics — Contradictions drive change.
• Downward Causation — Higher-level influence.
• Epistemic Humility — Calibrating the confidence of one's claims to the actual strength of the evidence and staying open to revision when new information arrives.
• Epistemic Justice — Fair knowledge production.
• Essentialism — Inherent defining properties.
• Existential Angst — Anxiety from lack of meaning.
• Fairness — Judging whether an allocation or procedure treats comparable parties impartially according to a defensible standard, given that multiple such standards can conflict.
• Falsifiability — A claim is scientific only if it could in principle be empirically refuted.
• Foreseeing (Prediction) — Predict future states.
• Grand Narrative (Metanarrative) — Overarching explanations.
• Hermeneutic Circle — Whole/part interpretation loop.
• Hierarchy — Organizes elements into levels or ranks.
• Holism — Whole exceeds sum of parts.
• Implicit Knowledge — Unconscious understanding.
• Inductive Reasoning — Specific to general inference.
• Infinite Regress — Endless chain of explanation.
• Inversion — Reversal of structures.
• Minimal Modification Principle — Preserve true facts when constructing alternative scenarios.
• Modal Reasoning — Reasoning about necessity, possibility, and contingency.
• Moral Relativism — Morality depends on context.
• Normativity — What ought to be.
• Ontology — What exists and how entities relate.
• Paradox — Contradictory but revealing truth.
• Parsimony (Occam's Razor) — Prefer simplicity.
• Phenomenalism — Reality known through perception.
• Phenomenology — Study of subjective experience.
• Rights vs. Freedoms — Claims vs liberties.
• Teleology — Explanation by purpose or end state.
• Uncertainty — Incomplete knowledge.
• Virtue Ethics — Focus on character traits.

Also draws from Philosophy (38)

Primes whose canonical origin is elsewhere, but who list Philosophy among their alternate origin domains.

• Alienation — Disconnection from system.
• Analogy — Transfer structure between domains.
• Bayesian Updating — Update beliefs with evidence.
• Black Swan (High-Impact, Low-Probability Events) — High-impact unexpected events.
• Compositionality — Meaning from parts.
• Continuity vs. Rupture — Gradual vs abrupt change.
• Decision — Committing to one alternative from a set under uncertainty and trade-off, collapsing open deliberation into a chosen path and foreclosing the others.
• Deep Time — Extremely long timescales.
• Duality — Complementary perspectives.
• Emergence — Complex patterns from simple rules.
• Gradual vs. Catastrophic Change
• Historical Determinism — Events predetermined.
• Historicism — Context-bound understanding.
• Holarchy — Nested ordering in which each unit is at once an autonomous whole and a dependent part.
• Infinity — Unbounded quantity.
• Meta-Symbolic Reflection — Reflect on own rules.
• Metaphor — Conceptual mapping.
• Observer Effect — Observation alters system.
• Optionality — The asymmetric value of having a choice—bounded downside, unbounded upside—without obligation to act.
• Order — Defines ranking or sequencing relationships.
• Presentism — Applying modern views to past.
• Probability — Quantifies uncertainty and likelihoods.
• Proportionality — Match response to scale.
• Reflexivity (Self-Reference) — Self-referential systems.
• Representation — Model complex ideas.
• Reproducibility & Replicability — Repeatable results.
• Responsibility Attribution — Assigning credit or blame for an outcome to a particular agent.
• Rule of Law — No element of a system is exempt from its governing rules, including the element that generates or enforces them.
• Scale — Properties change with size.
• Social Construction of Reality — Reality shaped socially.
• Social Norms — Expected behaviors.
• Speech Act Theory (Illocution, Perlocution) — Language as action.
• Statistical Inference — Reasoning from a finite, noisy sample back to the underlying population or process while explicitly quantifying the uncertainty that sampling introduces.
• Sublime — Awe-inspiring emotional experience.
• Symmetry — Invariance under transformation.
• Time — The dimension that orders events from earlier to later with measurable duration and an irreversible direction, providing the foundation for change, rate, and causality.
• Uniformitarianism — Same processes over time.
• Validation — Confirming that an artifact actually solves the intended problem in its real operational context, as distinct from confirming it was merely built to specification.