Material cause See ARISTOTLE.

Material conditional See COUNTERFACTUALS, IMPLI-. CATIO.

Material equivalence See EQUIVALENCE.

Material implication See IMPLICATION.

Material implication, paradoxes of See IMPLICA -. TIO.

Material mode See METALANGUAGE.

Material supposition See SUPPOSITIO.

Materialism See METAPHYSICS, PHILOSOPHY OF. MIN.

Materialism, Australian See SMART.

Materialism, central state See PHILOSOPHY OF. MIN.

Materialism, dialectical See MARX, PLEKHANOV.

Materialism, emergent See PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.

Materialism, historical See ENGELS.

Materialism, non-reductive See PHILOSOPHY OF. MIN.

Mathematical analysis also called standard analysis, the area of mathematics pertaining to...

Mathematical constructivism See PHILOSOPHY OF. MATHEMATIC. mathematical function, an operation that, when...

Mathematical induction a method of definition and a method of proof. A...

Mathematical intuitionism a twentieth-century movement that reconstructs mathematics in accordance with an...

Mathematical logic See FORMAL LOGIC.

Mathematical space See SPACE.

Mathematical structuralism the view that the subject of any branch of mathematics...

Mathematics, philosophy of See PHILOSOPHY OF. MATHEMATIC.

Matrix mechanics See QUANTUM MECHANICS.

Matter See METAPHYSICS.

Matter, prime See HYLOMORPHISM.

Matter, principle of the conservation of See PHI-. LOSOPHY OF SCIENC.

Maxim See KANT.

Maximal consistent set in formal logic, any set of sentences S that is...

Maximal proposition See TOPICS.

Maximin strategy a strategy that maximizes an agent's minimum gain, or equivalently,...