self-determination the autonomy possessed by a community when it is politically...

self-evidence the property of being self-evident. Only true propositions (or truths)...

self-interest theory See PARFIT.

self-justification See EPISTEMOLOGY.

self-love See BUTLER, EGOISM.

self-organizing system See COMPUTER THEORY.

self-presenting in the philosophy of Meinong, having the ability – common...

self-reference, paradoxes of See RUSSELL, TYPE. THEOR. self-referential incoherence, an internal defect of...

self-reproducing automaton a formal model of self-reproduction of a kind introduced by...

Sellars, Roy Wood See NEW REALISM.

Sellars Wilfrid (1912–89), American philosopher, son of Roy Wood Sellars, and...

semantic atomism See SEMANTIC HOLISM.

semantic completeness See COMPLETENESS.

semantic compositionality See MEANING.

semantic consequence See MODAL LOGIC.

semantic consistency See CONSISTENCY.

semantic holism a metaphysical thesis about the nature of representation on which...

semantic molecularism See SEMANTIC HOLISM.

semantic nihilism See SEMANTIC HOLISM.

semantic paradoxes a collection of paradoxes involving the semantic notions of truth,...

semantics See FORMAL SEMANTICS, PHILOSOPHY OF. LANGUAG.

semantics, conceptual role See MEANING, PHILOSO-. PHY OF MIN.

semantics, extensionalist See EXTENSIONALISM.

semantics, Kripke See KRIPKE SEMANTICS.

semantics, linguistic See PHILOSOPHY OF LAN -. GUAG. semantics, non-standard. See SECOND...

semantics, outer domain See FREE LOGIC.

semantics, possible worlds See KRIPKE SEMANTICS,. POSSIBLE WORLD.

semantics, situation See POSSIBLE WORLDS.

semantics, standard See SECOND-ORDER LOGIC.

semantics, supervaluation See FREE LOGIC.