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  1. A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names. This is a concise guide to technical terms and personal names often encountered in the study of philosophy. What you will find here naturally reflects my own philosophical interests and convictions, but everything is meant to be clear, accurate, and fair, a reliable source of information on Western ...

  2. Aug 15, 2003 · 1. Philosophy and Conditions. An ambition of twentieth-century philosophy was to analyse and refine the definitions of significant terms—and the concepts expressed by them—in the hope of casting light on the tricky problems of, for example, truth, morality, knowledge and existence that lay beyond the reach of scientific resolution.

  3. Apr 10, 2008 · 1.4 Descriptive definitions. Descriptive definitions, like stipulative ones, spell out meaning, but they also aim to be adequate to existing usage. When philosophers offer definitions of, e.g., ‘know’ and ‘free’, they are not being stipulative: a lack of fit with existing usage is an objection to them.

  4. philosophy. A broad field of inquiry concerning knowledge, in which the definition of knowledge itself is one of the subjects investigated. Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom, spanning the nature of the Universe and human nature (of the mind and the body) as well as the relationships between these and between people.

  5. Theorem: a statement which has been proven to be true by a rigorous argument. Universal: a property of an object, which can exist in more than one place at the same time (e.g. the quality of "redness"). Virtue: the moral excellence of a person, or any trait valued as being good.

  6. This best-selling dictionary covers all areas of philosophy and contains terms from the related fields of religion, science, and logic. Clear and authoritative definitions and make it an essential resource for students and teachers and an ideal introduction for anyone with an interest in philosophy. This edition includes 500 biographies of ...

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  8. In terms of both propositional and first-order logic the concepts of necessary and sufficient conditions are intimately related to the concept of the conditional (i.e. a statement of the form “if p, then q ”) as the following canonical account makes clear. [1] Where S (p, q) means “ p is a sufficient condition for q ” and N (q, p) means ...

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