solipsism the doctrine that there exists a firstperson perspective possessing privileged...

Solovyov Vladimir (1853–1900), Russian philosopher, theologian, essayist, and poet. In addition...

Son Buddhism See KOREAN PHILOSOPHY.

sophia See ARISTOTLE. sophismata (singular: sophisma), sentences illustrating semantic or logical...

Sophists any of a number of ancient Greeks, roughly contemporaneous with...

Sorel Georges (1847–1922), French socialist activist and philosopher best known for...

sorites an argument consisting of categorical propositions that can be represented...

sorites paradox (from Greek soros 'heap'), any of a number of paradoxes about heaps and...

sortal See NATURAL KIND, SORTAL PREDICATE.

sortal predicate roughly, a predicate whose application to an object says what...

Soto Domingo de (1494–1560), Spanish Dominican theologian and philosopher. Born in...

soul also called spirit, an entity supposed to be present only...

soundness, (1) (of an argument) the property of being valid and...

soundness, strong See SOUNDNESS.

soundness, weak See SOUNDNESS.

sovereignty, divine See DIVINE ATTRIBUTES.

space an extended manifold of several dimensions, where the number of...

space, absolute See SPACE.

space, life See LEWIN.

space, mathematical See SPACE.

space, phase See STATE.

space, state See STATE.

space-time a four-dimensional continuum combining the three dimensions of space with...

spatiotemporal continuity a property of the careers, or space-time paths, of well-behaved...

speaker’s meaning See MEANING.

special relativity See RELATIVITY.

special senses See ARISTOTLE, FACULTY PSYCHOL -. OG.

special sensibles See ARISTOTLE, FACULTY PSYCHOL-. OG.

species See DEFINITION.

species, intentional See AQUINAS, ARISTOTLE.