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, machine state See PHILOSOPHY OF. MIN.

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.

fuzzy set a set in which membership is a matter of degree....