Cause, sustaining See CAUSATION.

Causes, the four See ARISTOTLE.

Cave, allegory of the See PLATO.

Cavell Stanley Louis (b.1926), American philosopher whose work has explored skepticism...

Cavendish Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–1673), English author of some dozen...

Cellular automaton See SELF-REPRODUCING AUTOM-.

Central state materialism See PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.

Certainty the property of being certain, which is either a psychological...

Ceteris paribus clause See PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE.

CH See Appendix of Special Symbols.

Ch’eng Chinese term meaning 'sincerity'. It means much more than just...

Ch’i Chinese term for ether, air, corporeal vital energy, and the...

Ch’ien k'un, in traditional Chinese cosmology, the names of the two...

Ch’ien Mu (1895–1990), Chinese historian, a leading contemporary New Confucian scholar and...

Ch’ien-fu Lun Chinese title of Comments of a Recluse (second century A.D.),...

Ch’ing Chinese term meaning (1) 'essence', 'essential'; (2) 'emotion', 'passions'. Originally,...

Ch’üan Chinese term for a key Confucian concept that may be...

Chance See DETERMINISM.

Chang Hsüeh-ch’eng (1738–1801), Chinese historian and philosopher who devised a dialectical theory...

Chang Tsai (1020–1077), Chinese philosopher, a major Neo-Confucian figure whose Hsi-ming ('Western...

Change See EVENT, TIME.

Change, Cambridge See CAMBRIDGE CHANGE.

Chaos theory See PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE.

Chaotic system See PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE.

Character the comprehensive set of ethical and intellectual dispositions of a...

Character, semantic See INDEXICAL.

Characteristica universalis See COMPUTER THE -. ORY, LEIBNI.

Charity, principle of See MEANING.

Charron Pierre (1541–1603), French Catholic theologian who became the principal expositor...

Cheng ming also called Rectification of Names, a Confucian program of language...