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Maxwell James Clerk (1831–79), Scottish physicist who made pioneering contributions to...

Maya a term with various uses in Indian thought; it expresses...

McDougall William (1871–1938), British and American (after 1920) psychologist. He was...

McTaggart John Ellis (1866–1925), English philosopher, the leading British personal idealist....

Mead George Herbert (1863–1931), American philosopher, social theorist, and social reformer....

Mean, doctrine of the See ARISTOTLE, CHUNG-YUNG.

Meaning the conventional, common, or standard sense of an expression, construction,...

Meaning holism See HOLISM.

Meaning postulate a sentence that specifies part or all of the meaning...

Meaning, conceptual role theory of See MEANING.

Meaning, descriptive See EMOTIVISM, MEANING.

Meaning, dispositional theory of See MEANING.

Meaning, emotive See EMOTIVISM, MEANING.

Meaning, focal See ARISTOTLE.

Meaning, idea theory of See MEANING.

Meaning, ideational theory of See PHILOSOPHY OF. LANGUAG.

Meaning, image theory of See MEANING.

Meaning, picture theory of See MEANING, WITTGEN-. STEI.

Meaning, referential theory of See MEANING, PHI -. LOSOPHY OF LANGUAG.

Meaning, speaker’s See MEANING.

Meaning, truth-conditional theory of See MEANING.

Meaning, use theory of See MEANING, PHILOSOPHY. OF LANGUAG.

Meaning, verifiability theory of See MEANING, PHI -. LOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE , VERIFICATIONIS.

Measurement See MAGNITUDE.

Measurement, theory of See MAGNITUDE.

Mechanical jurisprudence See JURISPRUDENCE.

Mechanism, logical See COMPUTER THEORY.

Mechanistic explanation a kind of explanation countenanced by views that range from...

Mediate inference See INFERENCE.

Medical ethics See ETHICS.