T’ai-chi Chinese term meaning 'Great Ultimate', an idea first developed in...

T’an Ssu-t’ung (1864–98), Chinese philosopher of the late Ching dynasty, a close...

T’ang Chün-i (1909–78), Chinese philosopher, a leading contemporary New Confucian and cofounder,...

T’i yung, Chinese terms often rendered into English as 'substance' and...

T’ien Chinese term meaning 'heaven', 'sky'. T'ien has a range of...

T’ien li jen-yü, Chinese terms literally meaning 'heavenly principles' and 'human desires',...

T’ien ming See MING.

T’ien-jen ho-i Chinese term for the relationship between t'ien (Heaven) and human...

Ta-hsüeh a part of the Chinese Confucian classic Book of Rites...

Table of categories See KANT.

Table of judgments See KANT.

Tabula rasa See LEIBNIZ, LOCKE.

Tacit consent See SOCIAL CONTRACT.

Tacit knowledge See EPISTEMOLOGY.

Tai Chen (1724–77), Chinese philologist, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer. A prominent member...

Tao Chinese term meaning 'path', 'way', 'account'. From the sense of...

Tao Te Ching See LAO TZU.

Tao-hsin jen-hsin, Chinese terms used by Neo- Confucian philosophers to contrast...

Tao-t’ung Chinese term meaning 'the orthodox line of transmission of the...

Taoism a Chinese philosophy identified with the Tao-chia (School of the...

Tarski Alfred (1901–83), Polish-born American mathematician, logician, and philosopher of logic...

Tarski’s (T) schema See TRUTH.

Tarski’s theorem See SEMANTIC PARADOXES.

Tarskian biconditional See CONVENTION T, TARSKI.

Tarskian satisfaction See SATISFACTION.

Tarskian semantics See FORMAL SEMANTICS.

Task verb See ACTION VERB.

Tautology a proposition whose negation is inconsistent, or (self-) contradictory, e.g....

Taylor Charles (b.1931), Canadian philosopher and historian of modernity. Taylor was...

Te Chinese rm meaning 'moral charisma' or 'virtue'. In its earliest...