| Term | Definition |
|---|
| metaphysics | beliefs about the ultimate nature of Reality |
| teleology | beliefs about the meaning and purpose of the universe, its inanimate elements, and its inhabitants |
| cosmology | beliefs about the origins and nature of the universe, life, and especially Man |
| epistemology | beliefs about the nature and sources of knowledge |
| anthropology | beliefs about the nature and purpose of Man in general and, oneself in particular |
| axiology | beliefs about the nature of value, what is good and bad, what is right and wrong |
| postmodernism | the period of twentieth-century Western culture that immediately followed high modernism; a philosophy that accepts the indeterminacy of meaning and the decenteredness of existence |
| metanarrative | any story told to justify another story, esp. involving artifice; a story about oneself that provides a view of one's experiences |
| simulacrum | a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance; an effigy, image, or representation |
| pastiche | an incongruous combination of materials, forms, motifs, etc., borrowed from one or more sources; hodgepodge |
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