crucial experiment a means of deciding between rival theories that, providing parallel...

critical legal studies a loose assemblage of legal writings and thinkers in the...

Critical idealism See KANT.

criterion, problem of the See PROBLEM OF THE CRI-. TERIO.

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...

Cusanus See NICHOLAS OF CUSA.

Cusa See NICHOLAS OF CUSA.

curve-fitting problem the problem of making predictions from past observations by fitting...

Cursus Coninbricensis See FONSECA.

cum hoc ergo propter hoc See INFORMAL FAL -. LACY.

Cumberland Richard (1631–1718), English philosopher and bishop. He wrote a Latin...

Culverwel, Nathaniel See CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS.

cultural relativism See RELATIVISM.

Cudworth, Ralph See CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS,. HYLOZOIS.

Cudworth Damaris, Lady Masham (1659– 1708), English philosopher and author of...

Crusius Christian August (1715–75), German philosopher, theologian, and a devout Lutheran...

d’Alembert Jean Le Rond (1717–83), French mathematician, philosopher, and Encyclopedist. According...

Damascene, John See JOHN OF DAMASCUS.

Damascius (c.462–c.550), Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, last head of the Athenian Academy...

Darwin, Charles See DARWINISM.

Czolbe Heinrich (1819–73), German philosopher. He was born in Danzig and...

Cyrenaics a classical Greek philosophical school that began shortly after Socrates...

Cynics a classical Greek philosophical school characterized by asceticism and emphasis...

cybernetics (coined by Norbert Wiener in 1947 from Greek kubernetes, 'helmsman'),...

cut-elimination theorem a theorem stating that a certain type of inference rule...

Darwinism the view that biological species evolve primarily by means of...