Dewey John (1859–1952), American philosopher, social critic, and theorist of education....

Dharma in Hinduism and especially in the early literature of the...

Dharmakiirti (seventh century A.D.), Indian Yogacara Buddhist philosopher and logician. His...

Diagonal procedure a method, originated by Cantor, for showing that there are...

Diagonalization See DIAGONAL PROCEDURE.

Dialectic an argumentative exchange involving contradiction or a technique or method...

Dialectical argument See DIALECTIC.

Dialectical materialism See MARX, PLEKHANOV.

Dialecticians See SCHOOL OF NAMES.

Diallelon (from ancient Greek di allelon, 'through one another'), a circular...

DIALLELON . circular reasoning, reasoning that, when traced backward from its conclusion,...

Diallelus See DIALLELON.

Dialogism See BAKHTIN.

Dianoia Greek term for the faculty of thought, specifically of drawing...

Dichotomy paradox See ZENO'S PARADOXES.

Dici de omni et nullo See DICTUM DE OMNI ET. NULL.

Dictum See ABELARD, COMPLEXE SIGNIFICABILE.

Dictum de omni et nullo also dici de omni et nullo (Latin, 'said of all...

Diderot Denis (1713–84), French philosopher, Encyclopedist, dramatist, novelist, and art critic,...

Différance a French coinage deployed by Derrida in De la Grammatologie...

Difference See SET THEORY.

Difference principle See RAWLS.

Difference, method of See MILL'S METHODS.

Différend See LYOTARD.

Differentia See DEFINITION, TOPICS.

Dignity a moral worth or status usually attributed to human persons....

Dilemma an argument or argument form in which one of the...

Dilemma, moral See MORAL DILEMMA.

Dilthey Wilhelm (1833–1911), German philosopher and historian whose main project was...

Diminished capacity a legal defense to criminal liability that exists in two...