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supervenience a dependence relation between properties or facts of one type,...

supervenient behaviorism See PHILOSOPHY OF. MIN. suppositio (Latin, 'supposition'), in the Middle...

supposition, material See SUPPOSITIO.

supposition, personal See SUPPOSITIO.

supposition, simple See SUPPOSITIO.

sure-thing principle See ALLAIS ' S PARADOX, DECI -. SION THEOR.

surface grammar See GRAMMAR.

surface structure See GRAMMAR, PHILOSOPHY OF. LANGUAG.

surplus value See MARX.

survival continued existence after one's biological death. So understood, survival can...

sustaining cause See CAUSATION.

sutra (from Sanskrit , 'thread', 'precept'), a single verse or aphorism...

Swedenborgianism the theosophy professed by a worldwide movement established as the...

Swinburne Richard (b.1934), British philosopher of religion and of science. In...

syllogism in Aristotle's words, 'a discourse in which, a certain thing...

syllogism, demonstrative See ARISTOTLE.

syllogism, practical See PRACTICAL REASONING.

symbol See PEIRCE, SYNCATEGOREMATA.

symbol, complete See SYNCATEGOREMATA.

symbol, improper See SYNCATEGOREMATA.

symbol, incomplete See SYNCATEGOREMATA.

symbol, primitive See LOGISTIC SYSTEM.

symbol, proper See SYNCATEGOREMATA.

symbolic logic See FORMAL LOGIC.

symmetry See PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE.

symmetry thesis See COVERING LAW MODEL, PHI -. LOSOPHY OF SCIENC.

symptom See CRITERION.

synaesthesia a conscious experience in which qualities normally associated with one...

syncategoremata, (1) in grammar, words that cannot serve by themselves as...

syncategorematic See LOGICAL FORM, SYNCATE -. GOREMAT. synderesis, in medieval moral...