proposition an abstract object said to be that to which a...

proposition, maximal See TOPICS.

propositional act See PROPOSITION.

propositional attitude See PHILOSOPHY OF MIND,. PROPOSITIO.

propositional calculus See FORMAL LOGIC.

propositional connective See SENTENTIAL CONNEC -. TIV.

propositional content See CIRCULAR REASONING.

propositional function an operation that, when applied to something as argument (or...

propositional justification See EPISTEMOLOGY.

propositional knowledge See EPISTEMOLOGY.

propositional object See PROPOSITION.

propositional opacity failure of a clause to express any particular proposition (especially...

propositional operator See SENTENTIAL CONNEC -. TIV.

propositional representation See COGNITIVE SCI -. ENC.

propositional theory of meaning See MEANING.

propositional verb See PROPOSITION.

proprietates terminorum (Latin 'properties of terms'), in medieval logic from the twelfth century...

proprioception See PERCEPTION.

proprium one of Porphyry's five predicables, often translated as 'property' or...

prosyllogism See POLYSYLLOGISM.

Protagoras See SOPHISTS.

protasis See COUNTERFACTUALS.

Protestant ethic See WEBER.

Protestant principle See TILLICH.

protocol statement one of the statements that constitute the foundations of empirical...

protothetic See LAWS OF THOUGHT, LE s NIEWSKI.

prototype theory a theory according to which human cognition involves the deployment...

Proudhon Pierre-Joseph (1809–65), French socialist theorist and father of anarchism. He...

provability predicate See GÖDEL 'S INCOMPLETE -. NESS THEOREM.

prudence See ETHICS.