INDUCTIONISM Antonyms

• (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves

• the theory that the parts of any whole cannot exist and cannot be understood except in their relation to the whole

• (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired primarily by intuition

• (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations

• an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description

• (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience

• the theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes religious truth

• the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct

• doubt about the truth of something

• the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge