Vedas the earliest Hindu sacred texts. 'Veda' literally means a text...

veil of ignorance See RAWLS.

velleity See VOLITION. Venn diagram, a logic diagram invented by the...

verifiability, principle of See PRINCIPLE OF VERIFIA -. BILIT.

verifiability theory of meaning See MEANING, PHI -. LOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE , VERIFICATIONIS. verificationism,...

verisimilitude See TRUTHLIKENESS.

Verstehen (German, 'understanding', 'interpretation'), a method in the human sciences that...

verum See Appendix of Special Symbols.

vibratinuncle See HARTLEY.

vice See VIRTUE ETHICS.

vicious circle principle See TYPE THEORY.

vicious regress regress that is in some way unacceptable, where a regress...

Vico Giambattista (1668–1744), Italian philosopher who founded modern philosophy of history,...

Vienna Circle a group of philosophers and scientists who met periodically for...

Vijñanavada an idealist school of Buddhist thought in India in the...

vijñapti Indian Buddhist term meaning 'representation', used by some philosophers as...

Vio, Tommaso de See CAJETAN.

violence, (1) the use of force to cause physical harm, death,...

vipassana (Pali, 'insight', 'discernment'), Indian Buddhist term used to describe both...

virtù See CLASSICAL REPUBLICANISM, MACHIAVELLI.

virtue, epistemic See VIRTUE EPISTEMOLOGY.

virtue epistemology the subfield of epistemology that takes epistemic virtue to be...

virtue ethics also called virtue-based ethics and agent-based ethics, conceptions or theories...

virtues, cardinal See CARDINAL VIRTUES.

virtues, theological See AQUINAS.

virtue theory See VIRTUE ETHICS.

Vishnu (from Sanskrit Vifpu), major Hindu god and Supreme Lord for...

Visistadvaita Vedanta a form of Hinduism for which Brahman is an independently...

vitalism See PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY.

vital lie (1) an instance of self-deception (or lying to oneself) when...