Free variable See VARIABLE.

Free will defense See PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION.

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

Freedom, negative See POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE. FREEDO.

Freedom, positive See POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE. FREEDO.

Freedom, practical See FREE WILL PROBLEM.

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

Frege-Geach point See GEACH.

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

Frequency theory of probability See PROBABILITY.

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...

Functional jurisprudence See JURISPRUDENCE.

Functionalism, analytical See PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.

Functionalism, machine state See PHILOSOPHY OF. MIN.

Functionalism, Turing machine See FUNCTIONAL -. IS.

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...