Paradox of analysis an argument that it is impossible for an analysis of...

Paradox of omniscience an objection to the possibility of omniscience, developed by Patrick...

Paradox of self-deception See SELF-DECEPTION.

Paradox of the examination See UNEXPECTED EX -. AMINATION PARADO.

Paradox of the heap See SORITES PARADOX.

Paradox of the knower See DEONTIC PARADOXES.

Paradox of the ravens See CONFIRMATION.

Paradox of the stone See PARADOXES OF OMNIPO -. TENC.

Paradoxes of confirmation See CONFIRMATION.

Paradoxes of material implication See IMPLICA -. TIO. paradoxes of omnipotence, a series of...

Paradoxes of self-reference See RUSSELL, TYPE THE-. OR.

Paradoxes of set theory See SET -THEORETIC PARA -. DOXES , SET THEOR.

Paradoxes of strict implication See IMPLICATION.

Paradoxes, deontic See DEONTIC PARADOXES.

Paradoxes, logical See SET -THEORETIC PARADOXES.

Paradoxes, semantic See SEMANTIC PARADOXES.

Paradoxes, set-theoretic See SET -THEORETIC PARA -. DOXE.

Parallel distributed processing See CONNECTION -. IS.

Parallelism See PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.

Parallelism, psychophysical See PHILOSOPHY OF. MIN. parapsychology, the study of certain anomalous...

Pareto efficiency also called Pareto optimality, a state of affairs in which...

Pareto optimality See PARETO EFFICIENCY.

Pareto-superior See PARETO EFFICIENCY. Parfit, Derek (b.1942), British philosopher internationally known...

Parity of reasons See PRINCIPLE OF INDIFFERENCE.

Parmenides (early fifth century B.C.), Greek philosopher, the most influential of...

Parousia See PLATO.

Parse tree See PARSING.

Parsimony, principle of See OCKHAM'S RAZOR. parsing, the process of determining the syntactic...

Partial belief See PROBABILITY.

Partial function See MATHEMATICAL FUNCTION.