Predestination See FREE WILL PROBLEM.

Predicables also praedicabilia, sometimes called the quinque voces (five words), in...

Predicate See GRAMMAR, LOGICAL SUBJECT.

Predicate calculus See FORMAL LOGIC.

Predicate hierarchy See HIERARCHY.

Predicate logic See FORMAL LOGIC.

Predicate, projectible See GRUE PARADOX.

Predication See QUALITIES.

Predication, ‘is’ of See IS.

Predicative property See TYPE THEORY.

Prediction See PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE.

Prediction paradox See PARADOX.

Preemptive cause See CAUSATION.

Preestablished harmony See LEIBNIZ, PHILOSOPHY. OF MIN. preexistence, existence of the individual...

Preface paradox See SEMANTIC PARADOXES.

Preference See DECISION THEORY.

Preference logics See DECISION THEORY.

Preference satisfaction utilitarianism See HARE.

Prehension See WHITEHEAD.

Premise See ARGUMENT.

Premise, major See SYLLOGISM.

Premise, minor See SYLLOGISM.

Prenex normal form See NORMAL FORM.

Prescriptive definition See DEFINITION.

Prescriptive meaning See MEANING.

Prescriptivism the theory that evaluative judgments necessarily have prescriptive meaning. Associated...

Present-aim theory See PARFIT. pre-Socratics, the early Greek philosophers who were not...

Presupposition, (1) a relation between sentences or statements, related to but...

Pretheoretical independent of theory. More specifically, a proposition is pretheoretical, according...

Price Richard (1723–91), Welsh Dissenting minister, actuary, and moral philosopher. His...