School Of Thought (Noun)
Meaning
A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- The ancient Greeks had a school of thought that the world was made up of four elements: earth, air, fire, and water.
- Marxism is a school of thought that emphasizes the struggle between the working class and the capitalist class.
- The existentialist school of thought emphasizes individual freedom and choice, and the inherent meaninglessness of life.
- The behaviorist school of thought in psychology focuses on observable behaviors rather than internal mental states.
- The rationalist school of thought holds that knowledge can be acquired through reason and innate ideas rather than sense experience.
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Hyponyms
- Ethicism
- Passivism
- Church Doctrine
- Reformism
- Establishmentism
- Democracy
- Pluralism
- Gospel
- Expansionism
- Dualism
- Religious Doctrine
- Internationalism
- Irredentism
- Imitation
- Epicureanism
- Philosophical Theory
- Freethinking
- Establishmentarianism
- Nihilism
- Secularism
- Gymnosophy
- Majority Rule
- Asceticism
- Commandment
- Kabbalism
- Credo
- Girondism
- Formalism
- Animism
- Feminism
- Presentism
- Secular Humanism
- Reincarnationism
- Creed
- Equalitarianism
- Prescriptivism
- Phenomenology
- Egalitarianism
- Descriptivism
- Rationalism
- Abolitionism
- Irridentism
- Animalism
- Antiestablishmentarianism
- Cabalism
- Dogma
- States' Rights
- Precept
- Absolutism
- Secessionism
- Contextualism
- Multiculturalism
- Unilateralism
- Humanism
- Teaching
- Dynamism
- Functionalism
- Laissez Faire
- Literalism
- Divine Right Of Kings
- Divine Right
- Nuclear Deterrence
- Monism
- Pacifism
- Pacificism
- Humanitarianism
- Amoralism
- Creationism
- Antiestablishmentism
- Millennium
- Utilitarianism
- Philosophical Doctrine
- Populism
- Theological Doctrine
- Nationalism
- Individualism