- Inquiry(Peirce's epistemology)
- An end-directed process leading from doubt-prone to doubt-proof beliefs.
- distort(describing how theory can damage understanding)
- To twist, bend, or misrepresent something so that it becomes unclear or inaccurate.
- fixed by its role in(in philosophical analysis of meaning)
- When the meaning of something is determined by how it's actually used and what it does, rather than by abstract definitions.
- lived language(in studying how meaning works)
- The way people actually use and understand words in real life, as opposed to how they might be defined in a dictionary or theory.
- meaning (in philosophy)(as used in language and philosophy)
- What a word, phrase, or concept actually refers to or stands for—essentially, what it means to understand something.
- metaphysical frameworks(as potentially misleading approaches to understanding)
- Systems of abstract philosophical theories that try to explain the ultimate nature of reality.
- metaphysics(Hartshorne's naturalistic redefinition of metaphysics)
- On Hartshorne's view, the study not of realities beyond the physical, but of features of reality that are ubiquitous or that would exist in any possible world.
- religious practice(as contrasted with abstract theory)
- The actual rituals, beliefs, and activities that religious people perform and live out in their daily lives.
- survival after death(as a philosophical and religious concept)
- The idea that some part of a person (like a soul or consciousness) continues to exist after their body dies.