metempsychosis See PYTHAGORAS.

method, axiomatic See AXIOMATIC METHOD.

methodic doubt See DESCARTES.

methodism See PROBLEM OF THE CRITERION.

method of agreement See MILL'S METHODS.

method of difference See MILL's METHODS.

method of doubt See DESCARTES.

method of residues See MILL's METHODS.

method of supervaluations See VAGUENESS.

methodological conservatism See PHILOSOPHY OF. SCIENC. methodological holism, also called metaphysical holism,...

methodological individualism See METHODOLOGI -. CAL HOLIS.

methodological naturalism See NATURALISM.

methodological skepticism See SKEPTICISM.

methodological solipsism See SOLIPSISM.

methodology See PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE.

Metrodorus See EPICUREANISM.

microreduction See REDUCTION.

middle knowledge knowledge of a particular kind of propositions, now usually called...

Middle Platonism the period of Platonism between Antiochus of Ascalon (c.130–68 B.C.)...

Middle Stoicism See STOICISM.

middle term See SYLLOGISM.

middle way See MADHYAMIKA.

Milesians the pre-Socratic philosophers of Miletus, a Greek city-state on the...

Mill James (1773–1836), Scottish-born philosopher and social theorist. He applied the...

millet paradox See SORITES PARADOX.

Mill’s methods procedures for discovering necessary conditions, sufficient conditions, and necessary and...

Mimamsa also called Purva , an orthodox school within Hinduism that...

mimesis (from Greek , 'imitation'), the modeling of one thing on...

mimetic theory of art See MIMESIS.

mind See HSIN1, PHILOSOPHY OF MIND, PROBLEM OF. OTHER MIND.