Teleology (from the Greek, telos, or end, purpose) is an ancient branch of Metaphysics, which is a branch of Philosophy. The study of Design and Purpose in everything, Teleology is about “Why?”, the directive principles and finality of any Substance, Organism, or Event. This much is inherent in Science today as a basic explanation...

Systems Theory (or Theorie) or General Systems Theory or Systemics is an interdisciplinary field which studies Systems as a whole. Systems Theory was founded by Ludwig von Bertalanffy, William Ross Ashby and others between the 1940s and the 1970s with focus on Physics, Biology, and Engineering, and it later grew with connections into Philosophy, Sociology, and Economics, as developed by Fritjof Capra and others, as...

Aesthetics (or Philosophy of Art) is a branch of Philosophy focused on the definition of Art in general and how we relate to what is Beautiful to us individually. The word Aesthetics was first used by the German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, and later Immanuel Kant, whose work on the Aesthetic and...

Wiki (pronounced: “Wickee”, not “Wickah”), was originally “WikiWiki” from the Hawaiian, or “Quick-Quick!”, and is used to identify a specific type of hypertext web page document or collection of documents, such as GetWiki, but it may also refer to the collaborative software used to create a “Wikipage”, such as GetWiki:Overview. How it works is by generating a normal web page in HTML from a normal document-type...

Eastern Philosophy is a diverse body of approaches to life and philosophizing, particularly centered on understanding the process of the Universe and its endless becoming. In Western Culture, the term “Eastern Philosophy” refers very broadly to the various philosophies of “the East”, namely Asia, including China, India, Japan, Korea, Tibet, and other nations. ...

The Philosophy of Mathematics is a specialization of Logic closely related to the Philosophy of Logic, which are all a part of Philosophy. Addressing questions about the character of Mathematics and “Number”, the conduct of mathematical inquiry, the Philosophy of Mathematics is focused on the role of mathematical objects in describing empirical...

MariaDB is a community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. Development is led by some of the original developers of MySQL, who forked it due to concerns over its acquisition by Oracle Corporation in 2009. MariaDB is intended to maintain high compatibility with MySQL, with...

All Rights Reserved © 1998-1999, 2001-2004 M.R.M. Parrott'Against Time' is a condensed version of the refutation of Time/Spacetime/Space discussed in Dynamism: Volume I: Force, as well as The Pure Critique of Reason, by M.R.M. Parrott. Against Time -We all obviously experience what we feel is Time itself, the...

All Rights Reserved © 2001-2004 M.R.M. Parrott'Against Super Strings' is a condensed version of the refutation of “String Theory” which is a small part of the book, Dynamism: Volume I: Force, by M.R.M. Parrott. Against Super Strings -Strings, Super Strings, Super-Symmetrical Strings, etc, were the result of clever mathematical ideas and equations developed to...

Dynamism (see Dynamism for encyclopedic information) is a series of treatises in Philosophy and Science by M.R.M. Parrott, addressing subjects in Metaphysics, such as a Theory of Reality, a Theory of Life, Subjectivity, Ethics, and more. Dynamism: A Philosophy and Science Series is available in paperback from Barnes & Noble,...

Ethics (from the Ancient Greek ethikos, ἠθικός, or “Theory of Living”, ethos, ἦθος, or “Habit”, as well as arete, ἀρετή, “Excellence” and “Virtue”) is a major branch of Philosophy as well as Culture, and is the study of the value of Good and Morality in ourselves and society. The very concept of Ethics, sometimes specialized academically as...

Epistemology is a branch of Philosophy dealing with the nature, origin and scope of Knowledge and Beliefs, how we come to have them, and methods of obtaining them. Epistemology asks about the ultimate justification and rationality of what we know, as well other “epistemic” features of Belief. “How do we know anything?” “What do we know when we know...

Aristotle (384-322 BC) was a major Greek thinker in Ancient Philosophy, a student of Plato (who was student of Socrates) and a teacher of Alexander the Great. Aristotle was the first to treat many of the subjects we know separately, from Metaphysics, Logic and Physics to Ethics, Poetics, Politics and more. Alongside Plato and...

All Rights Reserved © 2004 & 2007 M.R.M. ParrottThis article is updated from a version which appeared on rimric folio in 2004, and has been protected on GetWiki on behalf of the author, republished here with permission. All rights reserved. “Participating in a Wiki brings many of the same feelings of freedom as having one's own website or participating in a discussion forum, but there...

Metadata (“about” or “above” + “data” or “information”), literally “data about data”, is information that describes another set of data. A common example is a library catalog card, which contains data about the contents and location of a book: It is data about the data in the book referred to by the card. Other common contents of metadata include the source or author of the described dataset, how it should be accessed,...

The Philosophy of Language is a specialization of Epistemology, which is a major branch of Philosophy. The Philosophy of Language is about understanding how Language relates to the Mind and Society. How the source and structure of Language affects or influences our thinking, and how we use Language to control and interact...

All Rights Reserved © 1998-99 M.R.M. Parrott'Against Objectivism' first appeared as a series of internet discussion posts on Usenet, in 1998-99, and is a chapter in Synthetic A Priori, by M.R.M. Parrott. Take the Objectivist Challenge! Download and read the linked [mrmparrott.com/-title=0-9662635-6-1...

Timeless is a concept which describes something as being without a beginning or end, or at least seeming that way. It is an eternal or everlasting quality we find in some things. It is the “timeless beauty” of great designs, films, and fashion models. Timeless can refer to being unrestricted to a particular Time, or being independent within Time itself, as in Time Travel. Creative works which have been named...

American Indian Philosophy is based on the tribal histories, cultures, Languages, and traditions of the early peoples of “The Americas” originating before colonization, histories which are still active today. Many key philosophical traditions developed across the very broad geographical area of the Americas, from Alaska to Patagonia,...

PseudoPhilosophy is any idea or system that masquerades itself as Philosophy while significantly failing to meet even basic intellectual standards. The term is frequently pejorative, and most applications of it are quite contentious. The term bears the same relationship to Philosophy that PseudoScience bears to Science, or Anti-Matter to Matter. PseudoPhilosophy is simply “Bullshit”, in the common vernacular. The...

A Matrix Philosophy All Rights Reserved © 2003, 2008, 2024 M.R.M. ParrottThe text of this article includes versions which appeared on rimric folio in 2003, and from multiple authors in public newsgroups in 1999, and has been protected on GetWiki on behalf of the authors, republished here with permission and/or fair use. All rights...

How many students have relied on false information from Pseudopedia? Is the fact that it's a Wiki relevant to the question?“Pseudopedia”, “The Pseudopedia”, is an open-content information website, whose co-founder claims is the “sum of all human knowledge”, or at least, that it should become that sum. Since 2003, The Pseudopedia has immensely popularized the concepts of “Wiki” and free information in the public...

GetWiki (GetWiki.net) is an interactive PHP/MariaDB collaboration software application, and the concept of “getting wiki” with interactive websites, originated by M.R.M. Parrott in 2003-2004. As the overview explains, GetWiki introduces indexing with Facets and Categories, content-driven Atom/XML Syndication, and XML import of...

Semiotics is a broad field closely related to Logic, Linguistics, and the Philosophy of Language which is the study of activity and processes involving Signs as Communications with Meanings. The term “Semiosis” was introduced by Charles Sanders Peirce in a Theory of Sign Relations which described a logical process of...

The Philosophy of Science is the branch of Philosophy which deals with the study of Science (in the sense of “Natural Science”). The Philosophy of Science is closely related to many areas in Metaphysics such as Teleology, as well as Epistemology, Logic, and even Ethics. Philosophers of Science seek to explain the very nature of...