space, mathematical See SPACE.

space, state See STATE.

soundness, weak See SOUNDNESS.

space, phase See STATE.

soundness, (1) (of an argument) the property of being valid and...

sovereignty, divine See DIVINE ATTRIBUTES.

Sophists any of a number of ancient Greeks, roughly contemporaneous with...

Solovyov Vladimir (1853–1900), Russian philosopher, theologian, essayist, and poet. In addition...

Sorel Georges (1847–1922), French socialist activist and philosopher best known for...

solipsism the doctrine that there exists a firstperson perspective possessing privileged...

sophia See ARISTOTLE. sophismata (singular: sophisma), sentences illustrating semantic or logical...

sortal See NATURAL KIND, SORTAL PREDICATE.

sorites an argument consisting of categorical propositions that can be represented...

Soto Domingo de (1494–1560), Spanish Dominican theologian and philosopher. Born in...

sorites paradox (from Greek soros 'heap'), any of a number of paradoxes about heaps and...

Son Buddhism See KOREAN PHILOSOPHY.

sortal predicate roughly, a predicate whose application to an object says what...

sociological jurisprudence See JURISPRUDENCE.

Socinus, Faustus See SOCINIANISM.

Socinus, Laelus See SOCINIANISM.

soft determinism See FREE WILL PROBLEM.

Socrates (469–399 B.C.), Greek philosopher, the exemplar of the examined life,...

Socratic method See SOCRATES.

sociobiology See SOCIAL BIOLOGY.

Socratic irony a form of indirect communication frequently employed by Socrates in...

sociology of knowledge See MANNHEIM.

Socratic intellectualism the claim that moral goodness or virtue consists exclusively in...

Socratic paradoxes a collection of theses associated with Socrates that contradict opinions...

software See COMPUTER THEORY.

socialism See POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.