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Calculus, lambda- See COMBINATORY LOGIC,. LAMBDA - CALCULU.

Calculus, propositional See FORMAL LOGIC.

Calculus, sentential See FORMAL LOGIC.

Calculus, sequential See CUT- ELIMINATION THEO -. RE.

Calvin John (1509–64), French theologian and church reformer, a major figure...

Cambridge change a non-genuine change. If I turn pale, I am changing,...

Cambridge Platonists a group of seventeenthcentury philosopher-theologians at the University of Cambridge,...

Cambridge property See CAMBRIDGE CHANGE.

Camera obscura a darkened enclosure that focuses light from an external object...

Campanella Tommaso (1568–1639), Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet. He joined the...

Campbell Norman Robert (1880–1949), British physicist and philosopher of science. A...

Camus Albert (1913–60), French philosophical novelist and essayist who was also...

Canguilhem Georges (1904–96), French historian and philosopher of science. Canguilhem succeeded...

Cantor Georg (1845–1918), German mathematician, one of a number of late...

Cantor’s paradox See SET- THEORETIC PARADOXES.

Cantor’s theorem See CANTOR, CONTINUUM PROB -. LE.

Capacity responsibility See RESPONSIBILITY.

Capacity, diminished See DIMINISHED CAPACITY.

Cardinal utility See UTILITARIANISM.

Cardinal virtues prudence (practical wisdom), courage, temperance, and justice. Medievals deemed them...

Cardinality See SET-THEORETIC PARADOXES.

Carnap Rudolf (1891–1970), German-born American philosopher, one of the leaders of...

Carneades See ACADEMY.

Carroll Lewis, pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–98), English writer...

Cartesian circle See DESCARTES.

Cartesian demon See DESCARTES.

Cartesian dualism See DUALISM, PHILOSOPHY OF. MIN.

Cartesian interactionism See PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.

Cartesian product See SET THEORY.

Cartesianism See DESCARTES.