Quote Originally Posted by Devils_Advocate View Post
I'm not sure how you meant it, but this sort of usage of "actually" seems like an indicator of mild surprise to me; in this case, the surprise being that the philosophies presented can be described so well so succinctly. But that's a little weird, since those philosophies seem so clearly to each be built around a single simple core concept which isn't hard to identify or give a word for. Maybe it's me.
It is surprise, because while you found it easy to reduce them to a word, I've seldom seen it expressed simply yet adequately.