Hypernyms for "philosophical theory"
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Hypernyms
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aesthetic
Aristotelianism
conceptualism
Confucianism
Daoism
deconstruction
deconstructionism
determinism
empiricism
empiricist philosophy
environmentalism
esthetic
existential philosophy
existentialism
existentialist philosophy
formalism
hereditarianism
idealism
intuitionism
logicism
materialism
mechanism
mentalism
naive realism
nativism
naturalism
Neoplatonism
nominalism
operationalism
peripateticism
physicalism
Platonism
pragmatism
probabilism
rationalism
realism
relativism
Scholasticism
semiology
semiotics
sensationalism
sensualism
solipsism
Stoicism
subjectivism
Taoism
teleology
traditionalism
vitalism
What are hypernyms?
Hypernyms are words with a broader meaning that includes the meaning of the original word. For example, "animal" is a hypernym of "dog" because a dog is a type of animal.
Think of hypernyms as "umbrella terms" or categories that include the original word.