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A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

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"A" proposition
abandonment
abduction
Peter Abelard
the Absolute
absolutism
Absorption (Abs.)
abstraction
absurd
Abunaser
Academy
accent fallacy
accident
accident fallacy
act / rule utilitarianism
action theory
actuality / potentiality
Jane Addams
Addition (Add.)
ad hominem argument
αδιαφορα [adiaphora]
Alfred Adler
Theodor Adorno
aesthetics
affirmative conclusion
affirmative proposition
affirming the alternative
affirming the consequent
a fortiori
agent
agnosticism
Method of Agreement
αισθησις [aisthêsis]
αιτιον [aition]
ακρασια [akrásia]
Albert the Great
αληθεια [alêtheia]
Samuel Alexander
Algazel
algorithm
alienation
Alpharabius
alternation
alternative occurrence
Louis Althusser
altruism
ambiguity
amoral
amphiboly
analogy
analysis
analytic / synthetic
analytic philosophy
αναμνησις [anámnêsis]
αναγκη [anankê]
anarchism
Anaxagoras
Anaximander
Anaximenes
ancestral
ανδρεια [andreia]
Angst
anima
animals
animal rights
animism
anomalous monism
G.E.M. Anscombe
Anselm
Life and Works
. . Ontological Argument
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antecedent
Susan B. Anthony
anthropic principle
anthropomorphism
antinomy
Antisthenes
antithesis
anxiety
απειρων [apeirôn]
apodeictic
απορια [aporia]
a posteriori
appearance / reality
apperception
Kwame Anthony Appiah
applied ethics
a priori / a posteriori
Aquinas
Life and Works
. . Faith & Reason
. . Five Ways
. . Metaphysics
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αρχη [archê]
Archimedes
Hannah Arendt
Αρης [Ares]
αρετη [aretê]
argument
argument form
argumentum ad . . .
Aristippus
aristocracy
Aristotelian logic
Aristotelianism
Aristotle
Life and Works
. . Logic
. . Demonstration
. . Four Causes
. . Metaphysics
. . Universals
. . Knowledge
. . Virtue
. . Volition
. . Friendship
. . Politics
. . Poetics
Bibliography
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arithmetic
D.M. Armstrong
Antoine Arnauld
Kenneth Arrow
artificial intelligence
asceticism
assent
assertion
assertoric
Association (Assoc.)
association of ideas
assumption
Mary Astell
αταραξια [ataraxia]
atheism
atomism
attribute
Aufklärung
Augustine
Life and Works
. . Platonism
. . Human Nature
. . God
. . Freedom
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John Austin
Austin
Life and Works
. . Ordinary Language
. . Speech Acts
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authenticity
appeal to authority
autonomy / heteronomy
Averroës
Avicebron
Avicenna
axiology
axiom
A. J. Ayer

Charles Babbage
Gaston Bachelard
Francis Bacon
Roger Bacon
arg. ad baculum
bad faith
Annette Baier
Kurt Baier
Mikhail Bakunin
"Barbara"
"Baroco"
Thomas Bayes
Bayle
Life and Works
. . Skepticism
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beauty
de Beauvoir
Life and Works
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Bedeutung
begging the question
Begriff
behaviorism
belief
Jeremy Bentham
Nicolai Berdyaev
Bergmann
Life and Works
Bibliography
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Henri Bergson
Berkeley
Life and Works
. . Abstract Ideas
. . Immaterialism
. . Spirits
. . Common Sense
. . Science
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Isaiah Berlin
best of all possible worlds
Bewußtsein
biconditional
bivalence
Brand Blanshard
"Bocardo"
Boethius
Boetius of Dacia
Niels Bohr
Bernard Bolzano
Bonaventure
George Boole
Susan Bordo
Bernard Bosanquet
the Boundless
Robert Boyle
F. H. Bradley
Franz Brentano
C. D. Broad
Giordano Bruno
Martin Buber
bundle theory
Jean Buridan
Edmund Burke
Joseph Butler

Edward Caird
Cambridge Platonists
"Camenes"
"Camestres"
Albert Camus
Georg Cantor
Rudolf Carnap
Carneades
Lewis Carroll
Cartesianism
Ernst Cassirer
casuistry
categorical imperative
categorical logic
categorical proposition
categorical syllogism
categorical term
category
category mistake
catharsis
cause / effect
the four causes
Margaret Cavendish
"Celarent"
"Cesare"
chain of being
Pierre Charron
Roderick Chisholm
Noam Chomsky
Chrysippus
Alonzo Church
Cicero
circularity
Hélène Cixous
Samuel Clarke
class
clear and distinct
W. K. Clifford
Catherine Cockburn
cogito ergo sum
cognition
cognitive science
coherence theory
R.G. Collingwood
communism
Commutation (Comm.)
compatibilism
complement
completeness
complex question
composition fallacy
Auguste Comte
concept
conceptualism
conclusion
Concomitant Variation
Étienne de Condillac
conditional
confirmation
conjunction
Conjunction (Conj.)
connective
connotation
conscience
consciousness
consequent
consequentialism
consistency
constant
Constr. Dilemma (C.D.)
continence/incontinence
contingent
contradiction
contradictories
contraposition
contraries
conventionalism
converse accident
conversion
converting conditional
Anne Conway
Nicolas Copernicus
Géraud de Cordemoy
corpuscularianism
correspondence theory
cosmological argument
counter-example
counterfactual
courage
Hasdai Crescas
criterion
critical theory
Benedetto Croce
Ralph Cudworth
Richard Cumberland
Nicolas of Cusa
cynicism

Jean d'Alembert
Mary Daly
"Darii"
Charles Darwin
Dasein
"Datisi"
Donald Davidson
Dorothy Day
decision procedure
deconstruction
Richard Dedekind
de dicto / de re
deduction / induction
de facto / de jure
definite description
definition
deism
de jure
Gilles Deleuze
Democritus
Augustus De Morgan
De Morgan's Th. (DeM.)
Daniel Dennett
denotation / connotation
denying the antecedent
deontology
de re
Jacques Derrida
Descartes
Life and Works
. . Method
. . Animals
. . Doubt
. . Cogito
. . God
. . Error
. . Extension
. . Dualism
. . Cartesianism
Bibliography
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descriptive ethics
argument from design
determinable/determinate
determinism
Dewey
Life and Works
. . Knowledge
. . Morality
Bibliography
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Baron d'Holbach
dialectic
dialectical materialism
διανοια [diánoia]
Denis Diderot
Method of Difference
δικη [díkê]
dilemma
Wilhelm Dilthey
"Dimaris"
Ding an sich
Diogenes
direct realism
directive use of language
"Disamis"
disjunction
Disjunctive Syll. (D.S.)
disposition
distribution of terms
Distribution (Dist.)
division fallacy
double aspect theory
Double Negation
method of doubt
δοξα [dóxa]
mind-body dualism
W.E.B. Dubois
Pierre Duhem
Michael Dummett
δυναμις [dynamis]
Émile Durkheim
duties
Ronald Dworkin

"E" proposition
Meister Eckhart
Umberto Eco
ecofeminism
effect
efficient cause
egoism
ειδος [eidos]
εικασια [eikásia]
Albert Einstein
Eleatics
eliminativism
Elizabeth of Bohemia
emanation
emergent property
Ralph Waldo Emerson
appeal to emotion
emotive meaning
emotivism
Empedocles
empirical
empiricism
Encyclopedists
end
ενεργεια [energeia]
Friedrich Engels
Enlightenment
entailment
Entäusserung
εντελεχια [entelecheia]
enthusiasm
enthymeme
Epictetus
Life and Works
. . Stoicism
Bibliography
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Epicurus
Life and Works
. . Epicureanism
Bibliography
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epiphenomenalism
επιστημη [epistêmê]
epistemology
εποχη [epochê]
equivalence
Equivalence (Equiv.)
equivocal
equivocation
Desiderius Erasmus
Eratosthenes
Erfahrung
John Scotus Erigena
Erlebnis
ερος [eros]
esse est percipi
essence / accident
estrangement
eternal return
ethics
εθος [ethos]
Euclid
eudaemonism
Leonhard Euler
evidence
problem of evil
excluded middle
exclusive premises
existence
existential fallacy
Existential Generalization
existential import
Existential Instantiation
existentialism
expected value
explanation
Exportation (Exp.)
expressive use of language
extension
extension / intension
extensionality
extrinsic

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