energeticism also called energetism or energism, the doctrine that energy is...

energetism, energism See ENERGETICISM.

Engels Friedrich (1820–95), German socialist and economist who, with Marx, was...

Enlightenment a late eighteenth-century international movement in thought, with important social...

ens a se (Latin 'a being from itself'), a being that is completely independent...

ens ex se See ENS A SE.

encrateia See AKRASIA.

Encyclopedia in French, Encyclopédie; full English title: Encyclopedia, or a Descriptive...

Encyclopedists See ENCYCLOPEDIA.

end in itself See KANT.

endurance See PERDURANCE.

energeia Greek term coined by Aristotle and often translated as 'activity',...

en soi See SARTRE.

ens per accidens See PER ACCIDENS.

ens perfectissimo See ENS REALISSIMUM.

ens rationis (Latin 'a being of reason'), a thing dependent for its existence...

ens realissimum (Latin 'most real being'), an informal term for God that occurs...

entailment See IMPLICATION. entelechy (from Greek entelecheia), actuality. Aristotle, who coined...

enthymeme an incompletely stated syllogism, with one premise, or even the...

entity, abstract See ABSTRACT ENTITY.

entity, theoretical See THEORETICAL TERM.

entrenchment See GOODMAN. entropy, in physics, a measure of disorder; in...

envelope paradox an apparent paradox in decision theory that runs as follows....

environmental ethics See ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOS -. OPH. environmental philosophy, the critical study...

epapoge Greek term for 'induction'. Especially in the logic of Aristotle,...

epicheirema a polysyllogism in which each premise represents an enthymematic argument;...

Epictetus See STOICISM.

Epicureanism one of the three leading movements constituting Hellenistic philosophy. It...

Epicurus See EPICUREANISM.

Epimenides paradox See SEMANTIC PARADOXES.