• Gaunilo or Gaunillon (fl. 11th century) was a Benedictine monk of Marmoutier Abbey in Tours, France. He is best known for his contemporary criticism of...
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  • number of criticisms and objections have also been mounted. Its first critic was Gaunilo of Marmoutiers, a contemporary of Anselm's. Gaunilo, suggesting...
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    Anukulchandra Chakravarty (category Founders of new religious movements)
    founder of Satsang, in Deoghar. He was born in a Brahmin family Anukulchandra Chakravarty was born in the Himaitpur village of Pabna district of East Bengal...
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  • Philosophical schools of thought and philosophical movements. Contents Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also Absurdism -...
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    Russell's teapot (category Criticism of religion)
    the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making empirically unfalsifiable claims, as opposed to shifting the burden of disproof to others. Russell...
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  • holds that there is nothing but natural elements, principles, and relations of the kind studied by the natural sciences. Methodological naturalism is a philosophical...
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  • possible set of elements. It is also known as the principle of parsimony or the law of parsimony (Latin: lex parsimoniae). Attributed to William of Ockham,...
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    engineering from the Maharashtra Institute of Technology. Initially, she worked backstage at the production of Brahma Kumaris television presentations in...
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    reason for basic existence which has been raised or commented on by a range of philosophers and physicists, including Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Ludwig Wittgenstein...
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  • Walter Kaufmann (philosopher) (category American military personnel of World War II)
    translator, and poet. A prolific author, he wrote extensively on a broad range of subjects, such as authenticity and death, moral philosophy and existentialism...
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