General philosophy

General philosophy

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Semantics

Philosophy; General philosophy

The characterization, for a natural or artificial, language of relations between sentences such as sameness in meaning, semantic consequences (i.e. That if one sentence is true, such and so others ...

Tautology

Philosophy; General philosophy

A non-atomic, or molecular, proposition that is true no matter what the assignment of truth value to the atomic propositions that it contains. Example: "p or not-p". This molecular proposition is ...

Realist

Philosophy; General philosophy

Generally, someone who claims that various sorts of things that are not realised completely in our (sensory) experience are real. The things in question might be, e.g.: numbers, infinite ...

Positivism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Generally, the view that philosophy and science are one, exhaust genuine knowledge, and provide the only available key to rational social action. Varieties of positivism flourished on the Continent ...

Pragmatics

Philosophy; General philosophy

The characterization, for a natural or artificial, language or relationships between sentences, the world, and the situation of speaker and hearer. Pragmatics is particularly concerned with indexical ...

Phenominalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The view that immediate experience (sensations, thoughts, etx. ) is all there might be to reality. B. Russell for example, often took the phenomenalist view that talk about the "external" world of ...

Phenomenology

Philosophy; General philosophy

A philosophic movement that originated around the turn of the century on the Continent (see Husserl's Cartesian Meditations for example). This movement -- like Russell, G. E. Moore, and the analytic ...