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  • Fuzzy logic, when construed in a wider sense, is the theory of fuzzy ... When construed in a narrower sense, fuzzy logic is an extension of ...
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  • and economist. Best known as the father of the influential economist John ... Religious Test Acts from the universities of Cambridge and Oxford. After ...
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  • a specified statement follows from a set of assumed statements. The specified ... the conclusion is a necessary consequence of the set of premises, i.e. the ...
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  • Abduction, or inference to the best explanation, is a method of reasoning ... Peirce formulated abduction as a method of scientific research and introduced ...
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  • In traditional Aristotelian logic, deduction or deductive reasoning ... they are false deductions. Examples of such false or invalid deductive ...
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  • The Verifiability theory of meaning was put forth in the early twentieth ... Adherents of the verifiability principle claimed that all statements ...
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  • proportions, principle, standard, or logic, among other things. In religious ... such as Dao (Tao), the Vedic notion of rta, and the Hindu and Buddhist ...
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  • : Another John Venn was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University 1686–1687. ... fields, including set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science. ...
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  • philosopher. See also Chrysippus (mythology) of Greek mythology Chrysippus of Soli (c. 280 B.C.E. - c. 207 B.C.E.) is considered to ...
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  • Principle in philosophy and mathematics means a fundamental law or ... others, while laws and rules can. Greek philosophy began as the quest for ...
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  • and also neo-positivism) is a philosophy that combines positivism ... statements (everyone agreed on the existence of analytic a priori and synthetic ...
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  • symptomatic, from sema, sign) is a theory of the aspects of meanings of ... There are various kinds of studies in semantics in various fields ...
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  • ) was a polymath and a Christian philosopher of the sixth century who was instrumental ... Rome around 480 C.E. to the patrician family of Anicii, who had been Christians ...
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  • Reason, in philosophy, is the ability to form and operate upon concepts ... other related concepts such as: language, logic, consciousness, knowledge ...
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  • Neo-Hegelianism refers to several schools of thought associated with ... name is also applied to other philosophers of that period who took their ...
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  • is the proposal about the notion of computability, called the Church ... Other relevant contributions by Church are the proofs of the undecidablility ...
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  • Inference is the act or process of deriving a conclusion based on ... is traditionally studied within the field of cognitive psychology. ...
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  • Part of the foundation of mathematics, Russell's paradox (also ... Consider the set R of all sets that do not contain themselves as members ...
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  • In linguistics, logic, and mathematics etc., quantification is the ... The notion of quantification in the context of linguistics, logic ...
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  • He helped found both modern mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. ... Frege began his studies at the University of Jena in 1869, moving to Göttingen ...
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  • who was a leading influence in analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth ... where he developed an interest in the philosophy of mathematics. Russell ...
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  • and educationalist who advanced the study of psychology with his work on ... For 20 years Bain was professor of logic and English literature at ...
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  • The Megarian School of philosophy was founded c. 400 B.C.E. by Euclides ... Two disciples of Euclides— Eubulides and Alexinus—developed the ...
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  • An analytic proposition is one whose truth depends on relations of ... At the beginning of his Critique of Pure Reason, following the distinction ...
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  • anthropologist. He is famous for his study of primitive mentality and his ... suggested that human beings use two kind of thinking: “mystical thinking” ...
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  • In logic, two sentences (either in a formal language or a natural ... Mathematical logic is a mathematical representation of formal rules ...
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  • order, or arrangement.") is the study of the rules, or "patterned ... The combinatory behavior of words is governed to a first approximation ...
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  • to moral philosophy and the philosophy of logic were probably more ... to moral philosophy and the philosophy of logic were far more influential ...
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  • an English philosopher, and a leading member of the group of twentieth century ... Finchley, North London, by his parents, both of whom were teachers. He was ...
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  • William of Ockham (also Occam or any of several other spellings) ... While the use of Ockham's Razor in the later development of philosophy ...
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  • ) was a Neoplatonist philosopher, a student of Plotinus and the editor of ... Most of the known details of the personal life of Porphyry are found ...
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  • Venn diagrams are schematic diagrams used in logic and in the branch ... The British philosopher, mathematician, and professor of logic, John ...
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  • that represents the logical structure of truth-functional connectives ... The truth-values, truth or falsity, of the sentences in this argument ...
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  • Diodorus Cronus (fourth century, B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher of ... will be true.” He also raised the paradox of future contingency with his ...
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  • In logic, a theorem is formally meant to be a formula that can be ... In general, the proofs of theorems have two components: a set of premises ...
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  • and logician. His logical analysis of mathematical problems made ... family in Prague, which was then part of the Austrian Empire. His father ...
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  • theological writer, and Anglican archbishop of Dublin (1831–1863). Whately’s ... to hold public office, and state endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy. ...
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  • Nyaya (Sanskrit meaning "rational argument") is one of the six orthodox (astika) schools of Hindu philosophy that focuses on logic ...
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  • Parmenides of Elea (c. 515 – 450 b.c.e.) was a Greek pre-Socratic ... Earlier pre-Socratic philosophers identified the ultimate principle ...
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  • modernizing Italy by introducing the ideas of Locke, Leibniz, and Hume and ... In 1753 Genovesi was appointed to the first European chair of “commerce ...
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  • by many philosophers and observers of philosophy to have been one ... is that there exists an infinite number of concrete and causally isolated ...
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  • A fallacy is an error in an argument. There are two main kinds of ... Refutations, there have been many systems of classifying fallacies. In this ...
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  • Galen (Greek: Γαληνός, Latin: Claudius Galenus of Pergamum; ... Galen's experimental methods foreshadowed later developments ...
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  • Logic, from Classical Greek λόγος (logos), originally meaning ... Traditionally, logic is studied as a branch of philosophy. Since the ...
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  • known for being an outspoken critic of the Aristotelian philosophy ... made to memorize meaningless facts and rules of logic, and set out to reform ...
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  • [which] belongs to the school) was a method of learning taught by the academics ... It combined religious doctrine, study of the ideas of the Church fathers ...
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  • Greek philospher and a favorite student of Aristotle, who appointed him ... Theophrastus was wrote a great number of books on a wide variety of ...
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  • The term “monad” was used by the Pythagoreans as the name of the ... The term "monad," however, is best known as a concept of ...
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  • The principle of sufficient reason is the principle which is presupposed ... The principle has a variety of expressions, all of which are perhaps ...
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  • Positivism is a family of philosophical views characterized by a highly ... As Niccola Abbagnano has put it: The characteristic theses of positivism ...
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  • In philosophy, essence is the attribute (or set of attributes) that ... makes the thing be what it is. The essence of a thing or substance is able ...
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  • Nicholas or Nicolaus of Autrecourt (in French: Nicholas d'Autrécourt ... false teachings on the allegation that 66 of his propositions, culled from ...
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  • :Note: Zeno of Citium should not be confused with Zeno of Elea. ... Zeno of Citium (The Stoic) (sometime called Zeno Apathea) (333 – ...
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  • term designated a profession in or a group of teachers of rhetoric. Rhetoricians ... Socrates and Plato challenged sophist ideas of replacing rhetorical ...
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  • Ontology is a major branch of philosophy and a central part of metaphysics ... The conceptual division of this branch of philosophy was established ...
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  • was important for reintroducing the study of Chinese philosophy, regarded ... Born in 1895, Feng lived through a period of turmoil and transition ...
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  • and conversations, over an important circle of academics in Cambridge, Massachusetts ... After reading Darwin's Origin of Species (published in 1859) ...
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  • this sense can be known before one knows any of these other propostions. Not ... In logic and mathematics, an axiom is not necessarily a self-evident ...
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  • In mathematics and set theory, an axiomatic system is any set of specified ... A system will be called independent if each of its underlying axioms is independent ...
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  • and an influential figure on matters of political and social policy ... Bosanquet’s major works include A History of Aesthetic (1892), The ...
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  • 1945) was a prominent Japanese philosopher of the Meiji era. Nishida Kitaro ... Nishida Kitaro was born on June 17, 1870, in the Mori section of Unoke ...
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  • a philosopher and a founding representative of the Oxford-based British ordinary ... with extra interests in astronomy and philosophy who as a young man "had ...
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  • First Cause is term introduced by Aristotle and used in philosophy ... the "Prime Mover" that is a deity of "pure form" without ...
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  • entity that transcends the vicissitudes of time and so can be applied ... ==Problem of Universals== Throughout the history of philosophy, and ...
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  • has major implications for the foundations of mathematics. His best know ... then studied mathematics, physics, and philosophy at the Universities of ...
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  • is commonly understood to be an integration of two or more pre-existing elements ... Synthesis as a resolution of conflicts is often achieved by conscious ...
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  • Lifeworld (German: Lebenswelt) is a concept used in philosophy and ... is, the correlation between the functions of mind ("noesis") such ...
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  • He was the leading Aristotelian scholar of the Alexandrist group. His ... Pomponazzi also radically criticized what are generally thought of ...
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  • Pierre Nicole (1625 - November 16, 1695) was one of the most distinguished ... who based their ideas on the teachings of Augustine of Hippo, he believed ...
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  • involves uncertainty, distrust, or lack of sureness of an alleged fact ... Human beings generally live with beliefs in various degrees of certainty ...
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  • the Western world by the Latinized version of his name, Alkindus) was known ... consistently tried to demonstrate that philosophy is compatible with orthodox ...
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  • is a yes-or-no question on specified sets of inputs. For example, the problem ... A decision procedure (or decision algorithm) of a given decision problem ...
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  • and a leading philosopher and psychologist of the French Enlightenment. He ... 30, 1715, at Grenoble, France to a family of lawyers. Like his elder brother ...
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  • ) of Chalcedon (396 – 314 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and third ... In his biography of Xenocrates, Diogenes Laertius recounts several ...
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  • before being appointed as Wykeham professor of logic at New College, Oxford ... His earliest book, Perception (1932), rejected causal theories of ...
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  • he acquired a reputation in his day as one of the greatest philosophical ... Though he was first known for his critique of it, Arnauld was an adamant ...
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  • , based on a strict deconstruction of the term, refers to what people ... took common sense as the source and ground of justification for philosophical ...
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  • Jewish works refer to him by the acronym of his title and name, RaMBaM ... Maimonides is typically regarded as the greatest of the medieval Jewish ...
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  • 8, 1746) was an Irish philosopher and one of the founding fathers of the ... Hutcheson is thought to have been born at Drumalig, in the parish ...
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  • Analytic philosophy has been the dominant academic philosophical movement ... The main founders of analytic philosophy were the Cambridge philosophers ...
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  • Roger Bacon (c. 1214 – 1294), was one of the most famous Franciscan ... by Bisley in Gloucestershire. His date of birth is equally uncertain ...
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  • and Neoplatonic philosopher, was a teacher of rhetoric in Rome until the ... Although he wrote on a variety of subjects, Victorinus is little-studied ...
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  • is an apparently true statement or group of statements that leads to a ... cannot all be true together. The recognition of ambiguities, equivocations ...
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  • A concept is a constituent of thought or generalized idea, that designates ... and expressing them with language. Theories of concepts are thus closely tied ...
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  • who lived and taught in the Greek city of Nicopolis almost four hundred ... us with a detailed and complete explanation of Stoic ethics, which is not ...
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  • The Cyrenaics were one of the two earliest Socratic schools of philosophy ... Several of Aristippus’ followers modified this doctrine by distinguishing ...
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  • as the “First Teacher”) because of his extensive commentaries ... ideal society based on a Neoplatonic concept of the Divine, in which the responsibility ...
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  • [[Image:Zeno.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Zeno of Citium]] Stoicism, one of the three major schools of Hellenistic philosphy ...
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  • was a German philosopher. He was a follower of Leibniz and Christian Wolff ... to the Pietist movement and had become one of its central institutions. His ...
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  • A definition is a statement of the meaning of a term, word or phrase ... Definitions have various kinds of features and can be distinguished ...
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  • and psychologist. He contributed to a number of different areas in philosophy ... A number of his ideas such as the concept of intentionality, which ...
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  • critic and university administrator, was one of the antirationalist Oxford ... Inspired by a careful study of Spinoza, Hampshire developed a detailed ...
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  • ; "orthodox") are technical terms used in Indian philosophy ... There are six orthodox schools (i.e. Veda accepting) of Hindu philosophy: ...
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  • after Weininger's suicide at the age of 23. Today, the book is often ... however, it continues to be held up as a great work of lasting genius ...
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  • The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia ... and G.W.F. Hegel, and championed the concept of an organic and dynamic physical ...
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  • Notions?" in History and Philosophy of Logic 7: 143-154. ... and David Hitchcock. History and Philosophy of Logic 23: 155-196. ...
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  • new scientific principles and Aristotelian logic of the twelfth century to ... Neckam wrote religious works on a variety of subjects, most of which ...
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  • wrote in, many areas: Epistemology, history of philosophy, moral philosophy ... Broad was born at Harlesden, a suburb of London, as the only child ...
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  • In the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, noumenon, thing in itself (German ... It is immediately apparent that Kant’s notion of the noumenon is ...
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  • 1911 – February 8, 1960) was a philosopher of language and the main figure ... accolades for his work in and leadership of intelligence services and his ...
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