fallacy of false cause See INFORMAL FALLACY.

fallacy of four terms See SYLLOGISM.

fallacy of hasty generalization See INFORMAL FAL -. LAC.

fallacy of irrelevant conclusion See INFORMAL FAL-. LAC.

fallacy of many questions See INFORMAL FALLACY.

fallacy of misplaced concreteness See WHITEHEAD.

fallacy of secundum quid See INFORMAL FALLACY.

fallibilism the doctrine, relative to some significant class of beliefs or...

false cause, fallacy of See INFORMAL FALLACY.

false consciousness (1) lack of clear awareness of the source and significance...

false dilemma See DILEMMA.

false pleasure pleasure taken in something false. If it is false that...

falsifiability See POPPER, TESTABILITY.

falsification See POPPER.

falsum See Appendix of Special Symbols.

family resemblance See WITTGENSTEIN.

Fang Thomé H. (1899–1976), Chinese philosopher of culture. Educated at the...

Faaraabii, al- See AL-FARABI.

fascism See POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.

fatalism See FREE WILL PROBLEM.

feature-placing discourse See STRAWSON.

Fechner Gustav Theodor (1801–87), German physicist and philosopher whose Elemente der...

Fechner’s law See FECHNER.

feedback See CYBERNETICS.

feedforward See CYBERNETICS.

felicific calculus See BENTHAM.

felicity conditions See SPEECH ACT THEORY.

feminist epistemology epistemology from a feminist perspective. It investigates the relevance that...

feminist philosophy a discussion of philosophical concerns that refuses to identify the...

Ferguson Adam (1723–1816), Scottish philosopher and historian. His main theme was...