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Psychology, autonomy of See PHILOSOPHY OF PSY -. CHOLOG.

Psychology, philosophical See PHILOSOPHY OF. MIN.

Psychology, philosophy of See PHILOSOPHY OF PSY -. CHOLOG.

Psychophysical identity See PHYSICALISM.

Psychophysical parallelism See PHILOSOPHY OF. MIN.

Psychophysics See FECHNER.

Psychosemantic theory See PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.

Public good See COMMON GOOD, PHILOSOPHY OF. ECONOMICS , SOCIAL CHOICE THEOR....

Punishment a distinctive form of legal sanction, distinguished first by its...

Pure concept See KANT.

Pure reason See KANT.

Purpose See INTENTION.

Purposive explanation See PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE.

Purva Mimamsa. SEE MIMAMSA. Putnam, Hilary (b.1926), American philosopher who has made significant contributions...

Pyrrho of Elis (c.365–c.270 B.C.), Greek philosopher, regarded as the founder of Skepticism....

Pyrrhonian Skepticism See SKEPTICISM, SKEPTICS.

Pythagoras (570?–495? B.C.), the most famous of the pre-Socratic Greek philosophers....

Pythagoreanism See PYTHAGORAS.

Quale See QUALIA. qualia (singular: quale), those properties of mental states...

Qualisign See PEIRCE.

Qualitative identity See IDENTITY. qualitative predicate, a kind of predicate postulated in...

Qualities properties or characteristics. There are three specific philosophical senses. (1)...

Quality See SYLLOGISM.

Quantification the application of one or more quantifiers (e.g., 'for all...

Quantification theory, elementary See FORMAL. LOGI.

Quantificational shift fallacy See FORMAL FALLACY.

Quantifier See FORMAL LOGIC, PLURALITIVE LOGIC.

Quantifier elimination See UNIVERSAL INSTANTIA -. TIO.

Quantifier shift fallacy See FORMAL FALLACY.

Quantifying in use of a quantifier outside of an opaque construction to...