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Proudhon Pierre-Joseph (1809–65), French socialist theorist and father of anarchism. He...

prototype theory a theory according to which human cognition involves the deployment...

Protestant ethic See WEBER.

pseudo-overdeterminism See CAUSATION.

pseudohallucination a non-deceptive hallucination. An ordinary hallucination might be thought to...

pseudorandomness See COMPUTER THEORY.

prudence See ETHICS.

propositional object See PROPOSITION.

propositional knowledge See EPISTEMOLOGY.

propositional opacity failure of a clause to express any particular proposition (especially...

propositional theory of meaning See MEANING.

propositional representation See COGNITIVE SCI -. ENC.

propositional operator See SENTENTIAL CONNEC -. TIV.

proprietates terminorum (Latin 'properties of terms'), in medieval logic from the twelfth century...

Protagoras See SOPHISTS.

prosyllogism See POLYSYLLOGISM.

proprioception See PERCEPTION.

propositional verb See PROPOSITION.

proprium one of Porphyry's five predicables, often translated as 'property' or...

property, predicative See TYPE THEORY.

property, phenomenal See QUALIA.

proportionality, principle of See CAJETAN.

propositional act See PROPOSITION.

proposition, maximal See TOPICS.

proposition an abstract object said to be that to which a...

propositional connective See SENTENTIAL CONNEC -. TIV.

propositional function an operation that, when applied to something as argument (or...

propositional justification See EPISTEMOLOGY.

propositional content See CIRCULAR REASONING.

propositional calculus See FORMAL LOGIC.