lions of human beings to exist See Leslie's The. End of the World: The Science and...

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),...

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

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

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.

language game See WITTGENSTEIN.

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

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

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

La Ramée, Pierre See RAMUS.

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, 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.

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.