analysis, standard See MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS.

analytic See ANALYTIC – SYNTHETIC DISTINCTION.

analytic, transcendental See KANT.

analytical definition See DEFINITION.

ambiguity, elliptic See ELLIPSIS.

Ambrose Saint, known as of Milan (c.339–97), Roman church leader and...

Ammonius See COMMENTARIES ON ARISTOTLE.

Ammonius Saccas (early third century A.D.), Platonist philosopher who taught in Alexandria....

amoralist See EMOTIVISM.

amphiboly See INFORMAL FALLACY.

ampliatio See PROPRIETATES TERMINORUM.

ampliative inference See INDUCTION.

ampliative judgment See KANT.

Analects See CONFUCIUS.

analogical argument See PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION,. PROBLEM OF OTHER MIND.

analogical predication See AQUINAS.

Allais’s paradox a puzzle about rationality devised by Maurice Allais (b. 1911)....

allegory of the cave See PLATO.

all-things-considered reason See REASONS FOR. ACTIO.

Alnwick, William of See WILLIAM OF ALNWICK.

Alpharabius See AL-FARABI.

al-Raazii Abu Bakr, in Latin, Rhazes (c.854–925 or 932), Persian physician,...

Alston William P. (b.1921), American philosopher widely acknowledged as one of...

alternative, relevant See CONTEXTUALISM.

alternative denial See SHEFFER STROKE.

Althusser Louis (1918–90), French Marxist philosopher whose publication in 1965 of...

altruism See EGOISM.

ambiguity a phonological (or orthographic) form having multiple meanings (senses, characters,...

al-Faaraabii, Abu Nasr, also called Abunaser, in Latin, Alpharabius (870–950),...

algebra, Boolean See BOOLEAN ALGEBRA.