Partial order See RELATION.

Partial ordering See ORDERING.

Participation See PLATO.

Particular See CONCEPTUALISM, INDIVIDUATION,. METAPHYSIC.

Particular proposition See SYLLOGISM.

Particular, bare See METAPHYSICS.

Particular, basic See STRAWSON.

Particularism See PROBLEM OF THE CRITERION.

Partition division of a set into mutually exclusive and jointly exhaustive...

Parva naturalia See ARISTOTLE.

Pascal Blaise (1623–62), French philosopher known for his brilliance as a...

Pascal’s wager See PASCAL.

Passion See EMOTION, HUME, PRACTICAL REASON -. IN.

Passions See EMOTION.

Passions, direct See HUME.

Passions, indirect See HUME.

Passive euthanasia See EUTHANASIA.

Passive power See POWER.

Paternalism interference with the liberty or autonomy of another person, with...

Patriarchalism See FILMER.

Patristic authors also called church fathers, a group of early Christian authors...

Paul of Venice (c.1368–1429), Italian philosopher and theologian. A Hermit of Saint Augustine...

Peano, Giuseppe See LOGICAL FORM, PEANO POS -. TULATE. Peano postulates, also...

Peirce Charles S(anders) (1839–1914), American philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, the founder...

Pelagianism the doctrine in Christian theology that, through the exercise of...

Pelagius See PELAGIANISM.

Per accidens (Latin 'by accident'), by, as, or being an accident or non-essential...

Per genus et differentiam See DEFINITION.

Per se See ESSENTIALISM, PER ACCIDENS.

Percept See PERCEPTION. perception, the extraction and use of information about...