Abailard, Pierre See ABELARD.

Abdera, School of See ABDERITES.

Abderites the Greek philosophers Leucippus and Democritus, the two earliest exponents...

abduction canons of reasoning for the discovery, as opposed to the...

Abelard Peter, in French, Pierre Abailard or Abélard (1079–1144), French theologian...

abhidharma the analytical and systematic presentation of the major conceptual categories...

absolute space See SPACE.

absolute right See RIGHTS.

absent qualia See FUNCTIONALISM, PHILOSOPHY OF. MIN. absolute, the, term used by...

Abrabanel Isaac ben Judah (1437–1508), Spanish Jewish philosopher and statesman. On...

abortion See MORAL STATUS.

abhinivesha Sanskrit word meaning 'self-love' or 'will to live'. In Indian...

absurd See CAMUS, EXISTENTIALISM.

abstraction, lambda- See COMBINATORY LOGIC.

abstraction, axiom of See AXIOM OF COMPREHEN -. SIO.

abstraction See ABSTRACT ENTITY, BERKELEY.

abstract entity an object lacking spatiotemporal properties, but supposed to have being,...

abstracta See ABSTRACT ENTITY, NATURALISM.

abstract See APPENDIX OF SPECIAL SYMBOLS.

absolutism, ethical See RELATIVISM.

absolute time See TIME.

absolute threshold See FECHNER.

Absolute Spirit See HEGEL.

accessibility, epistemic See EPISTEMOLOGY.

accent, fallacy of See INFORMAL FALLACY.

Academy the school established by Plato around 385 B.C. at his...

Academic Skepticism See SKEPTICISM, SKEPTICS.

AC See APPENDIX OF SPECIAL SYMBOLS.

Abunaser See AL-FARABI.

accessibility between two worlds See POSSIBLE. WORLD. accident, a feature or property of a...