prior probability See BAYES'S THEOREM.

prisca theologica See FICINO. prisoner's dilemma, a problem in game theory, and...

privacy, epistemic See EPISTEMIC PRIVACY.

private language argument an argument designed to show that there cannot be a...

privation a lack of something that it is natural or good...

privileged access special first-person awareness of the contents of one's own mind....

pro attitude a favorable disposition toward an object or state of affairs....

probabilism See MEDINA.

probabilistic automaton See COMPUTER THEORY,. SELF -REPRODUCING AUTOMATO.

probabilistic causation See CAUSATION.

probabilistic disposition See DISPOSITION.

probabilistic independence See PROBABILITY.

probabilistic law See CAUSAL LAW.

probability a numerical value that can attach to items of various...

probability, prior See BAYES's THEOREM.

probability function See BAYESIAN RATIONALITY.

problematic judgment See KANT.

process philosophy See WHITEHEAD.

process–product ambiguity an ambiguity that occurs when a noun can refer either...

process theology any theology strongly influenced by the theistic metaphysics of Whitehead...

Proclus See COMMENTARIES ON PLATO, HELLENISTIC. PHILOSOPHY , NEOPLATONIS.

Prodicus See SOPHISTS.

production theory the economic theory dealing with the conversion of factors of...

productive reason See THEORETICAL REASON. professional ethics, a term designating one or...

problematic modality See MODALITY.

problem of evil See PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION.

problem of induction. First stated by Hume this problem concerns the logical basis of inferences from observed...

problem of other minds the question of what rational basis a person can have...

problem of the criterion a problem of epistemology, arising in the attempt both to...

problem of the single case See PROBABILITY,. PROPENSIT. problem of the speckled hen, a problem...