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.

abstracta See ABSTRACT ENTITY, NATURALISM.

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

abstraction See ABSTRACT ENTITY, BERKELEY.

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

abstraction, lambda- See COMBINATORY LOGIC.

absurd See CAMUS, EXISTENTIALISM.

absurdity See CATEGORY, REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM.

Abunaser See AL-FARABI.

AC See APPENDIX OF SPECIAL SYMBOLS.

Academic Skepticism See SKEPTICISM, SKEPTICS.

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

accent, fallacy of See INFORMAL FALLACY.

accessibility, epistemic See EPISTEMOLOGY.