meaning, speaker’s See MEANING.

meaning, truth-conditional theory of See MEANING.

meaning, use theory of See MEANING, PHILOSOPHY. OF LANGUAG.

meaning, verifiability theory of See MEANING, PHI -. LOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE , VERIFICATIONIS.

meaning holism See HOLISM.

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

measurement See MAGNITUDE.

measurement, theory of See MAGNITUDE.

mechanical jurisprudence See JURISPRUDENCE.

mechanism, logical See COMPUTER THEORY.

mechanistic explanation a kind of explanation countenanced by views that range from...

mediate inference See INFERENCE.

medical ethics See ETHICS.

Medina Bartolomeo (1527–80), Spanish Dominican theologian who taught theology at Alcalá...

Megarians also called Megarics, a loose-knit group of Greek philosophers active...

Meinong Alexius (1853–1920), Austrian philosopher and psychologist, founder of Gegenstandstheorie, the...

Meister Eckhart See ECKHART.

Melanchthon, Philip See SYNERGISM.

meliorism (from Latin melior, 'better'), the view that the world is...

Melissus of Samos (fl. mid-fifth century B.C.), Greek philosopher, traditionally classified as a...

memory the retention of, or the capacity to retain, past experience...

memory, image theory of See MEMORY.

memory, occurrent See MEMORY.

memory, representational theory of See MEM-. ORY. Mencius, also known as Meng-tzu, Meng K'o...

Mendel Gregor (1822–84), Austrian botanist and discoverer of what are now...

mereological essentialism See HAECCEITY.

Mendelian genetics See MENDEL.

Mendelssohn Moses (1729–86), German philosopher known as 'the Jewish Socrates.' He...

Meng K’o See MENCIUS.

Meng-tzu See MENCIUS.