Normal form a formula equivalent to a given logical formula, but having...

Normative See DEFINIST.

Normative ethics See ETHICS.

Normative reason See REASONS FOR ACTION, REA -. SONS FOR BELIE.

Normative relativism See RELATIVISM.

Notation, logical See LOGICAL NOTATION.

Notion See BERKELEY.

Notional assent See NEWMAN.

Notum per se (Latin 'known through itself'), self-evident. This term corresponds roughly to the...

Noumenal world See KANT.

Noumenon See KANT.

Noûs Greek term for mind or the faculty of reason. Noûs...

Novalis pseudonym of Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772–1801), German poet and philosopher...

Nozick Robert (b.1938), American philosopher currently at Harvard University, best known...

Null class See SET THEORY.

Null relation See RELATION.

Number See MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS, PHILOSOPHY. OF MATHEMATICS , QUALITIE.

Number theory See PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS.

Number, natural See MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS,. MATHEMATICAL INDUCTIO.

Number, rational See MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS.

Number, real See MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS.

Number, transcendental See MATHEMATICAL ANALY-. SI.

Numbers, law of large See BERNOULLI 's THEOREM.

Numenius of Apamea (fl. mid-second century . .), Greek Platonist philosopher of neo- Pythagorean tendencies. Very...

Numerical identity See IDENTITY.

Nung chia See HSÜ HSING.

Nussbaum Martha C(raven) (b.1947), American philosopher, classicist, and public intellectual with...

Nyaya-Vaishesika one of the orthodox schools of Hinduism. It holds that...

O-proposition See SYLLOGISM.

Oakeshott Michael (1900–91), British philosopher and political theorist trained at Cambridge...