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...

McDougall William (1871–1938), British and American (after 1920) psychologist. He was...

McTaggart John Ellis (1866–1925), English philosopher, the leading British personal idealist....

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 holism See HOLISM.

Meaning postulate a sentence that specifies part or all of the meaning...

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.