indirect proof See REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM.

indirect sense See OBLIQUE CONTEXT.

indirect speech act See SPEECH ACT THEORY.

indiscernibility of identicals the principle that if A and B are identical, there...

individual See METAPHYSICS.

individualism See POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.

individualism, descriptive See HOLISM.

individualism, methodological See METHODOLOGI-. CAL HOLISM. individuation, (1) in metaphysics, a process...

indubitability See PRIVILEGED ACCESS.

induction, (1) in the narrow sense, inference to a generalization from...

induction, eliminative See INDUCTION.

induction, intuitive See ROSS.

induction mathematical. See MATHEMATICAL INDUCTIO.

induction, new riddle of See GRUE PARADOX.

induction, problem of See PROBLEM OF INDUCTION.

inductive clause See MATHEMATICAL INDUCTION.

inductive definition See DEFINITION.

inductive explanation See COVERING LAW MODEL.

inductive justification See JUSTIFICATION.

inductive probability See PROBABILITY.

inductivism a philosophy of science invented by Popper and P. K....

infallibility See PRIVILEGED ACCESS.

inference the process of drawing a conclusion from premises or assumptions,...

inference rule See LOGISTIC SYSTEM.

inference to the best explanation an inference by which one concludes that something is the...

inferential justification See FOUNDATIONALISM.

infima species (Latin 'lowest species'), a species that is not a genus of...

infinitary logic the logic of expressions of infinite length. Quine has advanced...

infinite, actual See ARISTOTLE.

infinite analysis, doctrine of See LEIBNIZ.