concretism See REISM.

concurrent cause See CAUSATION.

concursus dei God's concurrence. The notion derives from a theory from medieval...

Condillac Étienne Bonnot de (1714–80), French philosopher, an empiricist who was...

conditional a compound sentence, such as 'if Abe calls, then Ben...

conditional, material See COUNTERFACTUALS, IM -. PLICATIO.

conditional, strict See COUNTERFACTUALS, IMPLI -. CATIO.

conditional probability See PROBABILITY.

conditional proof (1) The argument form 'B follows from A; therefore, if...

conditional proposition See CONDITIONAL, CON -. VERSE , COUNTERFACTUAL. conditioning, a form...

conditio sine qua non (Latin 'a condition without which not'), a necessary condition; something without...

Condorcet Marquis de, title of Marie-Jean- Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat (1743–94), French...

Condorcet winner See CONDORCET.

confirmation an evidential relation between evidence and any statement (especially a...

confirmation, degree of See CARNAP.

confirmation, paradoxes of See CONFIRMATION.

confirmational holism See PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE.

Confucianism a Chinese school of thought and set of moral, ethical,...

Confucius also known as K'ung Ch'iu, K'ung Tzu, Kung Fu-tzu (sixth–fifth...

congruence See LEWIS, C.

conjecture See POPPER.

conjunction the logical operation on a pair of propositions that is...

conjunction elimination (1) The argument form 'A and B; therefore, A (or...

conjunction introduction (1) The argument form 'A, B; therefore, A and B'...

conjunctive normal form See NORMAL FORM.

connected said of a relation R where, for any two distinct...

connectionism an approach to modeling cognitive systems which utilizes networks of...

connective, propositional See SENTENTIAL CON -. NECTIV.

connective, sentential See SENTENTIAL CONNEC -. TIV. connotation. (1) The ideas and...

conscience See BUTLER, SYNDERESIS.