metaphysics - Concepts

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Concepts

Physicalism - The philosophical position that everything that exists is physical or supervenes on the physical, and that all facts are ultimately physical facts.
Platonism - The philosophical tradition descending from Plato, centered on the reality of abstract Forms and the primacy of reason.
Platonic Ideal - The perfect, eternal, unchanging archetype of a thing that exists in the abstract realm of Forms.
Non-Duality - The philosophical teaching that subject and object, self and other, are ultimately not separate.
Tao (Dao) - The fundamental concept in Taoism - the way, path, or natural order of the universe.
Dualism - The philosophical view that mind and body are fundamentally different kinds of substances or possess fundamentally different properties.
Theory of Forms - Plato's metaphysical theory that abstract, perfect Forms are the true reality of which physical things are mere copies.
Bundle Theory - The philosophical view, associated with David Hume, that the self is not a substance but merely a bundle of perceptions in constant flux.
Panpsychism - The philosophical view that consciousness or mind-like qualities are a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of reality, present to some degree in all matter.