La Mettrie Julien Offroy de (1707–51), French philosopher who was his generation's...

La Peyrère Isaac (1596–1676), French religious writer, a Calvinist of probable Marrano...

La Ramée, Pierre See RAMUS.

Laffitte Pierre (1823–1903), French positivist philosopher, a disciple of Comte and...

Lambda-abstraction See COMBINATORY LOGIC,. LAMBDA -CALCULU. lambda-calculus, also l-calculus, a theory...

Lambda-operator See LAMBDA-CALCULUS.

Lambda-term See COMBINATORY LOGIC, LAMBDA -. CALCULU. Lambert, Johann Heinrich (1728–77),...

Lange Friedrich Albert (1828–75), German philosopher and social scientist. Born at...

Language game See WITTGENSTEIN.

Language of thought See MEANING, MENTALESE,. PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAG. Lao Tzu (sixth century...

Language, artificial See FORMAL LANGUAGE, PHI -. LOSOPHY OF LANGUAG.

Language, natural See FORMAL LANGUAGE, PHILOS -. OPHY OF LANGUAG.

Language, philosophy of See PHILOSOPHY OF LAN -. GUAG.

Laplace Pierre Simon de (1749–1827), French mathematician and astronomer who produced...

Large numbers, law of See BERNOULLI 's THEOREM.

Latent content See FREUD.

Latin American philosophy the philosophy of Latin America, which is European in origin...

Lattice theory See BOOLEAN ALGEBRA.

Law of double negation See DOUBLE NEGATION.

Law of eternal return See COMPUTER THEORY.

Law of identity See IDENTITY.

Law of large numbers See BERNOULLI 's THEOREM.

Law of nature See NATURAL LAW, PHILOSOPHY OF. SCIENC.

Law of succession See CAUSAL LAW.

Law of trichotomy See CHOICE SEQUENCE, RELA -. TIO. laws of thought, laws...

Law, bridge See REDUCTION.

Law, natural See NATURAL LAW.

Law, philosophy of See PHILOSOPHY OF LAW.

Lawlike generalization also called nomological (or nomic), a generalization that, unlike an...

Lawlike statement See LAWLIKE GENERALIZATION.