telos ancient Greek term meaning 'end' or 'purpose'. Telos is a...

temperance See CARDINAL VIRTUES.

template See COGNITIVE SCIENCE.

temporal becoming See TIME.

tensed identity See IDENTITY.

tense logic an extension of classical logic introduced by Arthur Prior (Past,...

Teresa of Ávila Saint (1515–82), Spanish religious, mystic, and author of spiritual treatises....

term See RELATION, RUSSELL, SYLLOGISM.

term, major See SYLLOGISM.

term, minor See SYLLOGISM.

term, observation See PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE.

term, transcendental See TRANSCENDENTALS.

terminist logic a school of logic originating in twelfth-century Europe and dominant...

terminus ad quem See TERMINUS A QUO.

terminus a quo (Latin 'term from which'), the starting point of some process. The...

tertiary qualities See QUALITIES.

Tertullian (A.D. c.155–c.240), Latin theologian, an early father of the Christian...

testability in the sciences, capacity of a theory to undergo experimental...

testimony an act of telling, including all assertions apparently intended to...

Tetens Johann Nicolas (1736–1807), German philosopher and psychologist, sometimes called the...

Tetractys See PYTHAGORAS.

Thales of Miletus (fl. c.585 B.C.), Greek philosopher who was regarded as one...

thema (plural: ta), in Stoic logic, a ground rule used to...

Themistius See COMMENTARIES ON ARISTOTLE.

theodicy (from Greek theos, 'God', and dike, 'justice'), a defense of...

Theodorus See CYRENAICS.

theological creationism See PREEXISTENCE. theological naturalism, the attempt to develop a naturalistic...

theological virtues See AQUINAS.

theological voluntarism See VOLUNTARISM.

theology, natural See PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION,. THEOLOGIA NATURALI.