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A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

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pacifism
Thomas Paine
William Paley
panpsychism
pantheism
Paracelsus
paradigm
paradox
parallelism
Vilfredo Pareto
Parmenides
paronymous
law of parsimony
particular prop.
Blaise Pascal
patriarchy
Giuseppe Peano
Peirce
Life and Works
. . Belief
. . Reality
. . Pragmatism
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perception
perceptual illusion
perfectibility
performative utterance
Peripatetics
perlocutionary act
Ralph Barton Perry
per se / per accidens
person
personal identity
persuasive definition
pessimism
petitio principii
phenomenalism
phenomenology
phenomenon
φιλια [philia]
Philo Judaeus
philosophy
φρνησις [phrónêsis]
physicalism
φυσις [physis]
Pico della Mirandola
πιστις [pístis]
appeal to pity
Max Planck
Plato
Life and Works
. . Socratic method
. . Knowing Virtue
. . Soul & Form
. . Justice
. . Social Life
. . Specific Virtues
. . Good Rulers
. . Knowledge
. . Value of Justice
. . Love
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principle of plenitude
Plotinus
pluralism
πνευμα [pneuma]
ποιησις [poiêsis]
Jules Henri Poincare
Polish notation
politics
George Polya
Karl Popper
arg. ad populum
Porphyry
Port-Royal
positivism
post hoc fallacy
postmodernism
postulate
potentiality
pragmatic theory
pragmatism
πραξις [praxis]
precising definition
predicate calculus
predicate constant
prediction
premise
prescriptivism
presocratic philosophers
presupposition
H.H. Price
Richard Price
H.A. Prichard
prima facie
primary / secondary qual.
Pringle-Pattison, Seth
private language
probability
problematic judgment
proof
proposition
propositional calculus
Protagoras
P.-J. Proudhon
prudence
ψυχη [psychê]
Samuel Pufendorf
punishment
Hilary Putnam
Pyrrho of Elis
Pythagoras

Q.E.D.
qualia
qualities
propositional quality
quantification rules
quantification theory
quantifiers
propositional quantity
quantum mechanics
quaternio terminorum
Quine
Life and Works
. . "Two Dogmas"
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Frank Ramsey
Petrus Ramus
Ayn Rand
rationalism
John Rawls
realism
perceptual realism
reality
reason
recollection
recursive
reductio ad absurdum
reductionism
redundancy theory
reference
Tom Regan
Pierre Régis
Hans Reichenbach
Thomas Reid
reification
relativism
Renaissance
replacement rules
representationalism
res cogitans/extensa
Method of Residues
responsibility
Paul Ricouer
Bernhard Riemann
rights
rigid designator
David George Ritchie
Jacques Rohault
Richard Rorty
W.D. Ross
Rousseau
Life and Works
. . Inequality
. . Social Contract
. . General Will
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Josiah Royce
Sara Ruddick
rule utilitarianism
Russell
Life and Works
. . Mathematics
. . Descriptions
. . Logical Atomism
. . Social Concerns
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Ryle
Life and Works
. . Methods
. . Concept of Mind
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Gaon Saadiah
Comte de Saint-Simon
salva veritate
moral sanction
George Santayana
Sartre
Life and Works
. . Freedom
. . Responsibility
. . Self-Deception
. . Despair
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Satyagraha
Ferdinand de Saussure
F.W.J. von Schelling
Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Moritz Schlick
scholasticism
Arthur Schopenhauer
Erwin Schrödinger
scientia
scientific method
John Duns Scotus
John Searle
secondary qualities
secundum quid
self-deception
self-evident
Wilfrid Sellars
semantic theory
semantics
semiotics
Seneca
sensation
sense / reference
sense data
Seth Pringle-Pattison
Sextus Empiricus
Shaftesbury
Sheffer stroke
Henry Sidgwick
Siger of Brabant
simpliciter
Simplification (Simp.)
sine qua non
Peter Singer
singular proposition
Sinn / Bedeutung
skepticism
B.F. Skinner
J.J.C. Smart
Adam Smith
social contract
Socrates
Life and Teachings
. . Defining Piety
. . Methods / Aims
. . Civil Obedience
. . Knowing Virtue
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solipsism
σοφια [sophía]
sophism
sophists
σωφρσυνη [sophrosúnê]
sorites
soul
sound / unsound
Madeleine de Souvré
speech acts
Herbert Spencer
Spinoza
Life and Works
. . Method
. . Metaphysics
. . God / Nature
. . Mind and Body
. . Human Nature
. . Epistemology
. . Freedom
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square of opposition
Madame de Staël
standard form
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
statement
statement constant
statement form
statement variable
C.L. Stevenson
Dugald Stewart
stipulative definition
stoicism
P.F. Strawson
structuralism
Francisco Suarez
subalternation
subcontraries
subjective
sublime
sub specie aeternitatis
substance
substitution-instance
sufficient condition
sui generis
summum bonum
supererogatory
supervenient
syllogism
symbolic logic
logical symbols
syncategorematic
synderesis
synonymous
syntactics
synthesis
synthetic

Alfred Tarski
tautology
Tautology (Taut.)
Harriet Taylor
τεχνη [technê]
teleological argument
τελος [télos]
Teresa of Avila
terminus a quo/ad quem
Thales
theism
theodicy
theoretical definition
thesis /antithesis / synthesis
thing-in-itself
Thomas Aquinas
Judith Jarvis Thomson
H.D. Thoreau
Paul Tillich
time
τιμη [timê]
time travel
Timon of Philius
token
John Toland
transcendental argument
Transposition (Trans.)
Hegelian triad
Leon Trotsky
truth
truth-functional
truth-table
Sojourner Truth
τυχη [tychê]
tu quoque
Alan Turing
type / token
types, theory of

Übermensch
Miguel de Unamuno
unconscious
underdetermination
understanding
undistributed middle
uniformity of nature
Universal Generalization
Universal Instantiation
universal proposition
problem of universals
universalizability
univocal / equivocal
Ursache
Urteil
use / mention
utilitarianism

vagueness
Hans Vaihinger
valid / invalid
Lorenzo Valla
value
variable
Thorsten Veblen
John Venn
Venn diagrams
verbal dispute
arg. ad verecundiam
verifiability principle
veritas
Vernunft
Verstehen
Giambattista Vico
Vienna Circle
virtue
virtue ethics
volition
volonté générale
Voltaire
voluntarism
voluntary / involuntary
John von Neumann
voting paradox

Wahrheit
Friedrich Waismann
J. B. Watson
weakness of will
Max Weber
Simone Weil
well-formed formula
Weltanschauung
Wert
Cornel West
Richard Whately
William Whewell
Alfred North Whitehead
Wiener Kreis
will
Edward O. Wilson
John Cook Wilson
Wirklichkeit
Wirkung
wisdom
John Wisdom
Wissen
Wittgenstein
Life and Works
. . Picture Theory
. . Fact and Value
. . New Methods
. . Language Games
. . Private Language
Bibliography
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Christian Wolff
Wollstonecraft
Life and Works
Bibliography
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Xenocrates
Xenophanes
Xenophon


Zeit
Zeno of Citium
Zeno of Elea
Ernest Zermelo
zombie

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