A fortiori argument an argument that moves from the premises that everything which...

A posteriori See A PRIORI.

A priori prior to or independent of experience; contrasted with 'a posteriori'...

A priori argument See A PRIORI.

A priori justification See A PRIORI, JUSTIFICATION.

A round See Appendix of Special Symbols.

A se See ENS A SE.

A-proposition See SYLLOGISM.

A-series See TIME.

A-theory of time See TIME.

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...

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

Abortion See MORAL STATUS.

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

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

Absolute right See RIGHTS.

Absolute space See SPACE.

Absolute Spirit See HEGEL.

Absolute threshold See FECHNER.

Absolute time See TIME.

Absolutism, ethical See RELATIVISM.

Abstract See APPENDIX OF SPECIAL SYMBOLS.

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

Abstracta See ABSTRACT ENTITY, NATURALISM.

Abstraction See ABSTRACT ENTITY, BERKELEY.