primary process See FREUD.

primarily valuative word See PRESCRIPTIVISM.

prima facie right See RIGHTS.

prima facie justification See JUSTIFICATION.

prima facie evidence See EVIDENCE.

primary qualities See QUALITIES.

primary rule See HART.

prime matter See HYLOMORPHISM.

primary substance See ARISTOTLE.

primitive symbol See LOGISTIC SYSTEM.

prime mover the original source and cause of motion (change) in the...

premise See ARGUMENT.

prenex normal form See NORMAL FORM.

premise, major See SYLLOGISM.

prescriptive meaning See MEANING.

present-aim theory See PARFIT. pre-Socratics, the early Greek philosophers who were not...

prescriptivism the theory that evaluative judgments necessarily have prescriptive meaning. Associated...

prescriptive definition See DEFINITION.

premise, minor See SYLLOGISM.

Price Richard (1723–91), Welsh Dissenting minister, actuary, and moral philosopher. His...

pretheoretical independent of theory. More specifically, a proposition is pretheoretical, according...

presupposition, (1) a relation between sentences or statements, related to but...

Priestley Joseph (1733–1804), British experimental chemist, theologian, and philosopher. In 1774...

prima facie duty See DUTY, ROSS.

prediction See PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE.

predicative property See TYPE THEORY.

predication, ‘is’ of See IS.

preference logics See DECISION THEORY.

prehension See WHITEHEAD.

preference satisfaction utilitarianism See HARE.