Power a disposition; an ability or capacity to yield some outcome....

Power set See SET THEORY.

Practical argument See PRACTICAL REASONING.

Practical attitude See PRACTICAL REASONING.

Practical freedom See FREE WILL PROBLEM.

Practical judgment See AKRASIA.

Practical logic See INFORMAL LOGIC.

Practical modality See FREE WILL PROBLEM.

Practical rationality See RATIONALITY.

Practical reason the capacity for argument or demonstrative inference, considered in its...

Practical reasoning the inferential process by which considerations for or against envisioned...

Practical syllogism See PRACTICAL REASONING.

Practical wisdom See ARISTOTLE.

Practition Castañeda's term for the characteristic content of practical thinking. Each...

Praedicabilia See PREDICABLES.

Praedicamenta (singular: praedicamentum), in medieval philosophy, the ten Aristotelian categories: substance,...

Pragmatic ambiguity See AMBIGUITY.

Pragmatic contradiction a contradiction that is generated by pragmatic rather than logical...

Pragmatic maxim See PEIRCE.

Pragmatic theory of truth See PRAGMATISM, TRUTH.

Pragmatics See PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE, SPEECH. ACT THEORY , THEORY OF...

Pragmatism a philosophy that stresses the relation of theory to praxis...

Pragmatism, ethical See MORAL EPISTEMOLOGY.

Praxis (from Greek prasso, 'doing', 'acting'), in Aristotle, the sphere of...

Praxis school a school of philosophy originating in Zagreb and Belgrade which,...

Pre-Critical See KANT.

Preanalytic considered but naive; commonsensical; not tainted by prior explicit theorizing;...

Precising definition See DEFINITION.

Precognition See PARAPSYCHOLOGY.

Preconscious See FREUD.