mathematical constructivism See PHILOSOPHY OF. MATHEMATIC. mathematical function, an operation that, when...

mathematical induction a method of definition and a method of proof. A...

mathematical intuitionism a twentieth-century movement that reconstructs mathematics in accordance with an...

mathematical logic See FORMAL LOGIC.

mathematical space See SPACE.

mathematical structuralism the view that the subject of any branch of mathematics...

mathematics, philosophy of See PHILOSOPHY OF. MATHEMATIC.

matrix mechanics See QUANTUM MECHANICS.

matter See METAPHYSICS.

matter, prime See HYLOMORPHISM.

matter, principle of the conservation of See PHI-. LOSOPHY OF SCIENC.

maxim See KANT.

maximal consistent set in formal logic, any set of sentences S that is...

maximal proposition See TOPICS.

maximin strategy a strategy that maximizes an agent's minimum gain, or equivalently,...

Maxwell James Clerk (1831–79), Scottish physicist who made pioneering contributions to...

maya a term with various uses in Indian thought; it expresses...

Mead George Herbert (1863–1931), American philosopher, social theorist, and social reformer....

mean, doctrine of the See ARISTOTLE, CHUNG-YUNG.

meaning the conventional, common, or standard sense of an expression, construction,...

meaning, conceptual role theory of See MEANING.

meaning, descriptive See EMOTIVISM, MEANING.

meaning, dispositional theory of See MEANING.

meaning, emotive See EMOTIVISM, MEANING.

meaning, focal See ARISTOTLE.

meaning, idea theory of See MEANING.

meaning, ideational theory of See PHILOSOPHY OF. LANGUAG.

meaning, image theory of See MEANING.

meaning, picture theory of See MEANING, WITTGEN-. STEI.

meaning, referential theory of See MEANING, PHI -. LOSOPHY OF LANGUAG.