actual idealism
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Actual idealism is a 20th-century Italian philosophical doctrine, developed by Giovanni Gentile, which holds that reality is constituted entirely by the ongoing activity of thought or the self-conscious mind.
All labels observed (2)
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| actual idealism canonical | 3 |
| Immaterialism | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15050110 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: actual idealism Context triple: [Giovanni Gentile, philosophicalSchool, actual idealism]
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transcendental idealism
Transcendental idealism is Immanuel Kant’s influential theory that human experience of objects is shaped by the mind’s a priori structures, so we can know phenomena as they appear to us but not things-in-themselves.
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Western idealism
Western idealism is a broad philosophical tradition that emphasizes the primacy of mind, ideas, or consciousness in constituting reality, as developed by thinkers such as Plato, Kant, and Hegel.
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Hegelian idealism
Hegelian idealism is a philosophical system developed by G.W.F. Hegel that interprets reality as the unfolding of an absolute, rational Spirit through dialectical processes in history, thought, and culture.
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Fichtean idealism
Fichtean idealism is a form of German idealist philosophy developed by Johann Gottlieb Fichte that emphasizes the self-positing activity of the ego as the foundation of all reality and knowledge.
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The Refutation of Idealism
The Refutation of Idealism is a 1903 philosophical essay by G. E. Moore that famously challenges the doctrine that reality is fundamentally mental, helping to launch the tradition of analytic philosophy.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: actual idealism Target entity description: Actual idealism is a 20th-century Italian philosophical doctrine, developed by Giovanni Gentile, which holds that reality is constituted entirely by the ongoing activity of thought or the self-conscious mind.
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A.
transcendental idealism
Transcendental idealism is Immanuel Kant’s influential theory that human experience of objects is shaped by the mind’s a priori structures, so we can know phenomena as they appear to us but not things-in-themselves.
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B.
Western idealism
Western idealism is a broad philosophical tradition that emphasizes the primacy of mind, ideas, or consciousness in constituting reality, as developed by thinkers such as Plato, Kant, and Hegel.
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C.
Hegelian idealism
Hegelian idealism is a philosophical system developed by G.W.F. Hegel that interprets reality as the unfolding of an absolute, rational Spirit through dialectical processes in history, thought, and culture.
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D.
Fichtean idealism
Fichtean idealism is a form of German idealist philosophy developed by Johann Gottlieb Fichte that emphasizes the self-positing activity of the ego as the foundation of all reality and knowledge.
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E.
The Refutation of Idealism
The Refutation of Idealism is a 1903 philosophical essay by G. E. Moore that famously challenges the doctrine that reality is fundamentally mental, helping to launch the tradition of analytic philosophy.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: actual idealism