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set-theoretic paradoxes a collection of paradoxes that reveal difficulties in certain central...

set-theoretic reflection principles See REFLECTION. PRINCIPLE. set theory, the study of collections, ranging...

seven emotions (the) See KOREAN PHILOSOPHY.

Seven Worthies of the Bamboo Grove See NEO -. TAOIS. Sextus Empiricus (third century A.D.), Greek...

Shaftesbury Lord, in full, Third Earl of Shaftesbury, title of Anthony...

shamanism See KOREAN PHILOSOPHY.

shan o, Chinese terms for 'good' and 'evil', respectively. These are...

shang ti Chinese term meaning 'high ancestor', 'God'. Shang ti – synonymous...

Shang Yang also called Lord Shang (d. 338 B.C.), Chinese statesman. A...

Shao Yung (1011–77), Chinese philosopher, a controversial Neo-Confucian figure. His Huangchi ching-shih...

Sheffer stroke also called alternative denial, a binary truth-functor represented by the...

sheng Chinese term meaning 'the sage', 'sagehood'. This is the Chinese...

Shen Tao also called Shen Tzu (350?–275? B.C.), Chinese philosopher associated with...

Shepherd Mary (d.1847), Scottish philosopher whose main philosophical works are An...

shih1 Chinese term meaning 'strategic advantage'. Shih was the key and...

ship of Theseus the ship of the Greek hero Theseus, which, according to...

Shpet Gustav Gustavovich (1879–1937), leading Russian phenomenologist and highly regarded student...

shriek operator See APPENDIX OF SPECIAL SYM-. BOLS. shu1, Chinese term for...

shu2 See CHUNG, SHU.

Sidgwick Henry (1838–1900), English philosopher, economist, and educator. Best known for...

Siger of Brabant (c.1240–84), French philosopher, an activist in the philosophical and political...

sign See THEORY OF SIGNS.

sign, conventional See THEORY OF SIGNS.

sign, formal See SEMIOSIS.

sign, instrumental See SEMIOSIS.

sign, natural See THEORY OF SIGNS.

signified See SIGNIFIER.

signifier a vocal sound or a written symbol. The concept owes...

signs, theory of See THEORY OF SIGNS.

silhak See KOREAN PHILOSOPHY.