Corrigibility See PRIVILEGED ACCESS.

Cosmological argument See PHILOSOPHY OF RELI -. GIO.

Cosmology See METAPHYSICS.

Cost–benefit analysis See DECISION THEORY.

Count noun a noun that can occur syntactically (a) with quantifiers 'each',...

Countable See SET THEORY.

Counterdomain See RELATION.

Counterexample See COUNTERINSTANCE.

Counterfactual analysis of causation See CAUSA -. TIO. counterfactuals, also called contrary-to-fact conditionals, subjunctive...

Counteridenticals See COUNTERFACTUALS.

Counterinstance also called counterexample. (1) A particular instance of an argument...

Courage See CARDINAL VIRTUES.

Cournot Antoine-Augustin (1801–77), French mathematician and economist. A critical realist in...

Cousin Victor (1792–1867), French philosopher who set out to merge the...

Covering law model the view of scientific explanation as a deductive argument which...

Craig reduct See CRAIG'S INTERPOLATION THEOREM.

Craig’s interpolation theorem a theorem for firstorder logic: if a sentence y of...

Craig’s theorem See CRAIG'S INTERPOLATION THEO -. RE.

Crates of Thebes See CYNICS.

Crates the Cynic See CYNICS.

Cratylus of Athens See HERACLITUS.

Cratylus Zeyl See PRE-SOCRATICS.

Creation ex nihilo the act of bringing something into existence from nothing. According...

Creationism acceptance of the early chapters of Genesis taken literally. Genesis...

Creationism, theological See PREEXISTENCE.

Credibility See CARNAP.

Crescas Hasdai (d.1412), Spanish Jewish philosopher, theologian, and statesman. He was...

Criteriological connection See CRITERION.

Criteriology See MERCIER.

Criterion broadly, a sufficient condition for the presence of a certain...