adaptation See DARWINISM.

adaptive system See COMPUTER THEORY.

Adelard of Bath (c.1070–c.1145), English Benedictine monk notable for his contributions to the...

adequacy, analytic See MATERIAL ADEQUACY.

act utilitarianism See UTILITARIANISM.

actual reality See REALITY.

actual occasion See WHITEHEAD.

actualization, second See ARISTOTLE.

actualization, first See ARISTOTLE.

actuality See POSSIBLE WORLDS.

actualist See MODAL LOGIC.

actualism See GENTILE.

Adorno Theodor Wiesengrund (1903–69), German philosopher and aesthetic theorist, one of...

Advaita also called Uttara Mimamsa, in Hinduism, the non-dualistic form of...

adventitious ideas See IDEA.

adverbial theory See PERCEPTION.

Aenesidemus See SKEPTICISM, SKEPTICS.

adjunction See CONJUNCTION INTRODUCTION.

adicity See DEGREE.

adiaphora See STOICISM.

adhyaatman (Sanskrit, 'relating to or belonging to the self'), in early...

ad hoc hypothesis See CURVE -FITTING PROBLEM.

ad hoc See CURVE-FITTING PROBLEM.

adequation See HUSSERL.

adequacy, material See MATERIAL ADEQUACY.

affirming the consequent See FORMAL FALLACY.

aesthetics the branch of philosophy that examines the nature of art...

aesthetic property a property or quality such as being dainty, garish, graceful,...

aesthetic form See AESTHETIC FORMALISM, AES -. THETIC. aesthetic formalism, the view...

a fortiori argument an argument that moves from the premises that everything which...