Elias See COMMENTARIES ON ARISTOTLE.

Eliminability, Ramsey See BETH's DEFINABILITY THE-. ORE.

Eliminative induction See INDUCTION.

Eliminative materialism See PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.

Eliminativism See FOLK PSYCHOLOGY. Elizabeth of Bohemia (1618–80), German Princess whose...

Ellipsis an expression (spoken or written) from which semantically or syntactically...

Embodiment the bodily aspects of human subjectivity. Embodiment is the central...

Emergence See METHODOLOGICAL HOLISM.

Emergent materialism See PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.

Emergentism, descriptive See HOLISM.

Emerson Ralph Waldo (1803–82), American philosophical essayist, lecturer, and poet, a...

Emersonian perfectionism See CAVELL.

Emotion as conceived by philosophers and psychologists, any of several general...

Emotions, the seven See KOREAN PHILOSOPHY.

Emotions, the six See CH'ING.

Emotive conjugation a humorous verbal conjugation, designed to expose and mock first-person...

Emotive meaning See EMOTIVISM, MEANING.

Emotivism a noncognitivist metaethical view opposed to cognitivism, which holds that...

Empathic solipsism See SOLIPSISM.

Empathy imaginative projection into another person's situation, especially for vicarious capture...

Empedocles (c.495–c.435 B.C.), Greek pre- Socratic philosopher who created a physical...

Empirical See A PRIORI.

Empirical decision theory the scientific study of human judgment and decision making. A...

Empirical ego See KANT.

Empirical meaning See MEANING.

Empirical probability See PROBABILITY.

Empiricism (from empiric, 'doctor who relies on practical experience', ultimately from...

Empiricism, British See RATIONALISM.

Empiricism, constructive See SOCIAL CONSTRUC -. TIVIS.

Empiricism, logical See LOGICAL POSITIVISM.