freedom, practical See FREE WILL PROBLEM.

free logic a system of quantification theory, with or without identity, that...

free variable See VARIABLE.

free will defense See PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION.

free will problem the problem of the nature of free agency and its...

Frege Gottlob (1848–1925), German mathematician and philosopher. A founder of modern...

Frege-Geach point See GEACH.

frequency theory of probability See PROBABILITY.

French personalism a Christian socialism stressing social activism and personal responsibility, the...

Freud Sigmund (1856–1939), Austrian neurologist and psychologist, the founder of psychoanalysis....

Fries, Jakob Friedrich See NEO-KANTIANISM.

full subset algebra See BOOLEAN ALGEBRA.

function, mathematical See ALGORITHM, MATHE -. MATICAL FUNCTIO.

function, probability See BAYESIAN RATIONALITY.

function, state See QUANTUM MECHANICS.

function, teleological See TELEOLOGY.

functional See RELATION.

functional abstraction See COMBINATORY LOGIC.

functional calculus, lower See FORMAL LOGIC.

functional completeness See COMPLETENESS.

functional dependence a relationship between variable magnitudes (especially physical magnitudes) and certain...

functional explanation See PHILOSOPHY OF THE. SOCIAL SCIENCE. functionalism, the view that...

functionalism, analytical See PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.

functionalism, Turing machine See FUNCTIONAL -. IS.

functional jurisprudence See JURISPRUDENCE.

functor See FORMAL LOGIC.

fundamentum divisionis (Latin 'foundation of a division'), term in Scholastic logic and ontology...

Fung Yu-lan (1895–1990), Chinese philosopher. He was educated at Peking University and...

future contingents singular events or states of affairs that may come to...

fuzzy logic See FUZZY SET, VAGUENESS.