five phases See WU-HSING.

Five Ways See AQUINAS.

Fludd Robert (1574–1637), English physician and writer. Influenced by Paracelsus, hermetism,...

fluxion See CALCULUS.

flying arrow paradox See ZENO'S PARADOXES.

focal meaning See ARISTOTLE.

Fodor Jerry A. (b.1935), influential contemporary American philosopher of psychology, known...

folk psychology in one sense, a putative network of principles constituting a...

Fonseca Pedro da (1528–99), Portuguese philosopher and logician. He entered the...

Fontenelle Bernard Le Bovier de (1657–1757), French writer who heralded the...

Foot Philippa (b.1920), British philosopher who exerted a lasting influence on...

force, illocutionary See PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE,. SPEECH ACT THEOR. forcing, a method...

Fordyce David (1711–51), Scottish philosopher and educational theorist whose writings were...

form, aesthetic See AESTHETIC FORMALISM, AES -. THETIC.

form, grammatical See LOGICAL FORM.

form, logical See LOGICAL FORM.

form, Platonic See FORM, PLATO.

form, schematic See LOGICAL FORM.

form, substantial See FORM, HYLOMORPHISM.

formal cause See ARISTOTLE.

formal distinction See FUNDAMENTUM DIVISIONIS.

formal fallacy an invalid inference pattern that is described in terms of...

formalism the view that mathematics concerns manipulations of symbols according to...

formalism, aesthetic See AESTHETIC FORMALISM.

formalism, ethical See ETHICS.

formalism, jurisprudential See JURISPRUDENCE.

formalism, legal See JURISPRUDENCE.

formalization an abstract representation of a theory that must satisfy requirements...

formalize narrowly construed, to formulate a subject as a theory in...

formal justice See JUSTICE.