Schopenhauer Arthur (1788–1860), German philosopher. Born in Danzig and schooled in...

Schrödinger Erwin (1887–1961), Austrian physicist best known for five papers published...

School of Names also called, in Chinese, ming chia, a loosely associated group...

School of Laws See CHINESE LEGALISM.

Scholastic method See SCHOLASTICISM.

Schrödinger cat paradox See QUANTUM MECHAN -. IC.

Schrödinger equation See QUANTUM MECHANICS.

Schulze Gottlob Ernst (1761–1833), German philosopher today known mainly as an...

science, philosophy of See PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE.

scheme also schema (plural: schemata), a metalinguistic frame or template used...

scalar implicature See IMPLICATURE.

Saussure Ferdinand de (1857–1913), Swiss linguist and founder of the school...

schema See THEMA.

schematic form See LOGICAL FORM.

Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von (1759– 1805), German poet, dramatist, and...

Scheler Max (1874–1928), German phenomenologist, social philosopher, and sociologist of knowledge....

schemata See KANT.

Schlegel Friedrich von (1772–1829), German literary critic and philosopher, one of...

Schadenfreude See VALUE.

Schelling Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph (1775– 1854), German philosopher whose metamorphoses encompass...

scepticism See SKEPTICISM.

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis broadly, the claim that one's perception, thought, and behavior are...

saturated See FREGE.

satisfiable having a common model, a structure in which all the...

satisfaction conditions See SEARLE.

sat/chit/ananda also saccidananda, three Sanskrit terms combined to refer to the...

satisfice to choose or do the good enough rather than the...

satisfaction an auxiliary semantic notion introduced by Tarski in order to...

Sartre Jean-Paul (1905–80), French philosopher and writer, the leading advocate of...

Santayana George (1863–1952), Spanish- American philosopher and writer. Born in Spain,...