Chinese philosophy philosophy produced in China from the sixth century B.C. to...

Chinese room argument See SEARLE.

Ching Chinese term meaning 'reverence', 'seriousness', 'attentiveness', 'composure'. In early texts,...

Chisholm Roderick Milton (1916–99), influential American philosopher whose publications spanned the...

Chit See SAT/CHIT/ANANDA.

Choice, axiom of See LÖWENHEIM - SKOLEM THEO -. REM , SET THEORY....

Chomsky Noam (b.1928), preeminent American linguist, philosopher, and political activist who...

Chomsky hierarchy of languages See PHILOSOPHY. OF LANGUAG.

Chora See KRISTEVA.

Chou Tun-yi (1017–73), Chinese Neo-Confucian philosopher. His most important work, the T'aichi...

Chrysippus See STOICISM.

Chrysorrhoas See JOHN OF DAMASCUS.

Chu Hsi (1130–1200), Neo-Confucian scholar of the Sung dynasty (960–1279), commonly regarded...

Chuang Tzu also called Chuang Chou (4th century B.C.), Chinese Taoist philosopher....

Chün-tzu Chinese term meaning 'gentleman', 'superior man', 'noble person', or 'exemplary...

Chung shu, Chinese philosophical terms important in Confucianism, meaning 'loyalty' or...

Chung-yung a portion of the Chinese Confucian classic Book of Rites....

Church Alonzo (1903–95), American logician, mathematician, and philosopher, known in pure...

Church fathers See PATRISTIC AUTHORS.

Church-Turing thesis See PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.

Church’s theorem See CHURCH'S THESIS.

Church’s thesis the thesis, proposed by Alonzo Church at a meeting of...

Churchland Patricia Smith (b.1943), Canadianborn American philosopher and advocate of neurophilosophy....

Cicero Marcus Tullius (106–43 B.C.), Roman statesman, orator, essayist, and letter...

Circularity See CIRCULAR REASONING, DEFINITION,.

Citta-matra the Yogacara Buddhist doctrine that there are no extramental entities,...

Civic humanism See CLASSICAL REPUBLICANISM.

Civil disobedience a deliberate violation of the law, committed in order to...

Civil rights See RIGHTS.

Claim right See HOHFELD, RIGHTS.