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- The meaning of the word truth extends from honesty, good faith, and sincerity in general, to agreement with fact or reality in particular. The ...66 KB (9,824 words) - 23:40, 15 January 2024
- Sojourner Truth (circa. 1797–1883) was a slave who became famous for being an American abolitionist. She was a self-proclaimed Evangelist, ...14 KB (2,065 words) - 22:05, 30 January 2023
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- the major operator – which is the truth-value for the entire expression ... number of logical interpretations (or truth-value assignments) that have ...9 KB (1,481 words) - 16:04, 23 June 2023
- Category:Public Protagoras (in Greek Πρωταγόρας) (c. 481 B.C.E. – c. 420 B.C.E.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher born in Abdera ...6 KB (889 words) - 08:16, 2 December 2022
- paradox, there is no way to give consistent truth-value assignments. To avoid the problem, he argued that, when one sentence refers to the truth-value ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 22:25, 25 October 2022
- such that their meanings determine the truth-value of a given sentence in ... falsity is assigned and, relative to the truth-value assignment, the truth ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022
- Category:Public Parmenides of Elea (c. 515 – 450 b.c.e.) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher, born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 08:52, 18 November 2022
- Formal logic is logic that deals with the form or logical structure of statements and propositions and the logical implications and relations ...7 KB (926 words) - 06:33, 1 April 2024
- category:image wanted In philosophy and logic, proposition refers to either (a) the content or meaning of a meaningful declarative sentence or ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022
- Psychologism is a philosophical position that attempts to reduce diverse forms of knowledge including concepts and principles of logic and mathematics ...7 KB (1,004 words) - 23:31, 2 December 2022
- Alpha and Omega (Greek: Αλφα and Ω) is an appellation of God in the Book of Revelation (verses 1:8, 21:6, and 22:13). Its meaning is found ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- Category:Public Dōgen (also Dōgen Zenji 道元禅師; Dōgen Kigen 道元希玄, or Eihei Dōgen 永平道元) (January 19, 1200 - September ...13 KB (2,020 words) - 16:34, 29 January 2024
- An analytic proposition is one whose truth depends on relations of ideas or concepts, and not on what it says about the world or the way the ...9 KB (1,371 words) - 18:57, 26 July 2023
- Dukkha (Pāli दुक्ख; Sanskrit दुःख duḥkha ) is a central concept in Buddhism, which corresponds to a number of terms in English ...11 KB (1,613 words) - 18:37, 24 August 2020
- A contradiction is a logical incompatibility between two or more statements or propositions. It occurs when those statements or propositions ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 02:48, 8 January 2024
- The Dharmakāya (lit. Truth Body or Reality Body) is a central concept in Mahayana Buddhism forming part of the Trikaya doctrine that was first ...13 KB (2,027 words) - 10:18, 29 January 2024
- Methodic doubt is a systematic process of withholding assent regarding the truth or falsehood of all one’s beliefs until they have been demonstrated ...8 KB (1,232 words) - 16:27, 9 November 2022
- Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens are forms of valid inferences. By Modus Ponens, from a conditional statement and its antecedent, the consequent ...6 KB (1,057 words) - 19:28, 9 November 2022
- Sojourner Truth (circa. 1797–1883) was a slave who became famous for being an American abolitionist. She was a self-proclaimed Evangelist, ...14 KB (2,065 words) - 22:05, 30 January 2023
- Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (Николай Александрович Бердяев) (March 18, 1874 – March 24, 1948) was a Russian religious ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 04:06, 15 November 2022
- The Trikaya doctrine (Sanskrit, meaning "Three Bodies" of the Buddha) refers to an important Mahayana Buddhist teaching about the nature ...13 KB (1,936 words) - 16:53, 2 May 2023
- to form a compound sentence. The truth-value of the compound is uniquely determined by the truth-values of the simpler sentences. The logical ...27 KB (3,934 words) - 20:59, 3 November 2022
- Metalogic is a study of formal languages of logic from both syntactic and semantic perspectives. Formal languages consist of vocabulary (constants ...14 KB (2,296 words) - 16:20, 9 November 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Sermon in the Deer Park depicted at Wat Chedi Liem-KayEss-1.jpeg|thumb|right|225px|Painting of the Buddha's first ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- Category:Public The terms a priori (Latin; “from former”) and a posteriori (Latin; “from later”) refer primarily to species of propositional ...11 KB (1,601 words) - 07:08, 13 June 2023
- Eclecticism (from Greek eklektikos, “selective,” or “choosing the best”), is a conceptual approach that does not hold rigidly to a single ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
- The concept of pluralism in philosophy indicates the belief that reality consists of many different things or kinds of things. In this sense ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- Sextus Empiricus (lived during the second or possibly the third century C.E.), was a physician and philosopher whose philosophical writing is ...11 KB (1,515 words) - 10:12, 26 January 2023
- The term sophists originally meant “wise men” in Ancient Greece. By the fifth century B.C.E., the term designated a profession in or a group ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 01:17, 4 February 2023
- Averroism is the term applied to two philosophical trends originating among European scholastics in the late thirteenth century, after the introduction ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- Reason, in philosophy, is the ability to form and operate upon concepts in abstraction, in accordance with rationality and logic. Discussion ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- Christian August Crusius (January 10, 1715 – October 18, 1775) was a German philosopher and theologian. He enjoyed a considerable reputation ...10 KB (1,478 words) - 17:58, 10 December 2023
- Category:Image wanted Philippe de Vitry (October 31, 1291 – June 9, 1361) was a French composer, music theorist and poet. He was an accomplished ...5 KB (748 words) - 03:56, 24 November 2022
- Fuzzy logic, when construed in a wider sense, is the theory of fuzzy sets. The concept of fuzzy sets provides a convenient way to represent various ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 07:24, 15 April 2024
- The Verifiability theory of meaning was put forth in the early twentieth century by a group of logical positivists. The verifiability theory ...8 KB (1,167 words) - 18:01, 3 May 2023
- A modal logic was originally designed to describe the logical relations of modal notions. The list of the notions includes metaphysical modalities ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 19:24, 9 November 2022
- Historicism is a position that holds that all knowledge and cognition are historically conditioned. It is also widely used in diverse disciplines ...14 KB (2,067 words) - 15:55, 25 January 2023
- Mimesis (μίμησις from μιμεîσθαι) in its simplest context means "imitation" or "representation" in Greek. ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (November 23, 1919 – February 13, 2006) was an English philosopher, and a leading member of the group of twentieth ...11 KB (1,580 words) - 01:34, 24 November 2022
- Abū-Yūsuf Ya’qūb ibn Ishāq al-Kindī (c. 801-873 C.E.) (Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب ابن إسحاق الكندي) (also known ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 04:13, 17 June 2023
- Arnold Geulincx (1624 - 1669), sometimes known by the pseudonym Philaretus, was a Flemish philosopher and logician. Known primarily for "occasionalism ...8 KB (1,216 words) - 03:53, 15 August 2023
- John Norris (1657 – 1711), Anglican priest, philosopher and poet, is remembered as a Cambridge Platonist and as the sole English proponent ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 07:01, 3 August 2022
- Logical positivism (later referred to as logical empiricism, rational empiricism, and also neo-positivism) is a philosophy that combines positivism ...13 KB (1,922 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- Doubt, a status between belief and disbelief, involves uncertainty, distrust, or lack of sureness of an alleged fact, an action, motive, or a ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- Lying is telling or writing or otherwise promulgating a false statement or claim with intent to deceive. Here we will be concerned only with ...19 KB (3,123 words) - 03:12, 5 November 2022
- Satyagraha (Sanskrit, meaning "Truth-force") was a term coined by Mahatma Gandhi to express his philosophy that non-violence is a power ...17 KB (2,735 words) - 22:38, 3 April 2020
- Category:Public [[Image:Albrecht Dürer Betende Hände.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Faith in something greater is an important theme in all the world ...13 KB (1,952 words) - 00:32, 25 March 2024
- Won Buddhism, Wonbulgyo, a compound of the Korean won (circle) and bulgyo (Buddhism), means literally Circular Buddhism, or Consummate Buddhism ...8 KB (1,141 words) - 14:59, 17 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations [[Image:Pravda Adolf Hitler.jpg|thumb|right|]] Pravda (Правда, "The ...17 KB (2,565 words) - 00:32, 12 April 2023
- Natural theology is a branch of theology, which attempts to establish truths by reason without recourse to revelation. The division of theology ...12 KB (1,729 words) - 15:21, 11 November 2022
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, also known as pseudo-Denys, is the name scholars have given to an anonymous theologian and philosopher of the ...7 KB (1,028 words) - 08:24, 2 December 2022
- category:image wanted Generally, two quantities are commensurable if both can be measured in the same unit of measurement. For example, a distance ...17 KB (2,394 words) - 00:08, 8 January 2024
