Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus (c.480– 525), Roman philosopher and Aristotelian translator...
Boltzmann Ludwig (1844–1906), Austrian physicist who was a spirited advocate of...
Bolzano Bernard (1781–1848), Austrian philosopher. He studied philosophy, mathematics, physics, and...
Bonaventure Saint (c.1221–74), Italian theologian. Born John of Fidanza in Bagnorea,...
boo-hurrah theory See EMOTIVISM.
Book of Changes See I-CHING.
book of life expression found in Hebrew and Christian scriptures signifying a record...
Boole, George See BOOLEAN ALGEBRA, LOGICAL. FOR. Boolean algebra, (1) an ordered...
borderline case in the logical sense, a case that falls within the...
Born interpretation See QUANTUM MECHANICS.
Bosanquet Bernard (1848–1923), British philosopher, the most systematic British absolute idealist...
Boscovich Roger Joseph, or Rudjer Josip Boskovic' (1711–87), Croatian physicist and...
bodily continuity See PERSONAL IDENTITY.
Bodin Jean (c.1529–96), French political philosopher whose philosophy centers on the...
body, objective See EMBODIMENT.
body, phenomenal See EMBODIMENT.
Blondel Maurice (1861–1949), French Christian philosopher who discovered the deist background...
Bloch Ernst (1885–1977), German philosopher. Influenced by Marxism, his views went...
biology, social See SOCIAL BIOLOGY.
Birkhoff–von Neumann logic See QUANTUM LOGIC. bit (from binary digit), a unit or...
bivalence, principle of See PRINCIPLE OF BIVA -. LENC. black box, a hypothetical...
bleen See GRUE PARADOX.
blindsight a residual visual capacity resulting from lesions in certain areas...
bhavanga a subliminal mode of consciousness, according to Theravada Buddhist philosophers,...
biconditional the logical operator, usually written with a triple-bar sign (S...
biconditional, Tarskian See TARSKI.
bilateral reduction sentence See REDUCTION SEN -. TENC.
binary quantifier See PLURALITIVE LOGIC. bioethics, the subfield of ethics that concerns...
biological naturalism See SEARLE.
biology, autonomy of See UNITY OF SCIENCE.
