General philosophy

General philosophy

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Performatives

Philosophy; General philosophy

Sentences (or utterances) that serve more to do (than describe) something. Typically, these sentences are in the first person present noncontinuous, with a main verb that indicates a speech action. ...

Necessary

Philosophy; General philosophy

A sentence, proposition thought, or judgement is necessary if it is true of any possible world. Some philosophers (e.g. A. J. Ayer) maintain that the truths of logic and mathematics are necessary ...

Non-truth-functional

Philosophy; General philosophy

An operator (i.e. Something which if added to one or more propositions makes a (molecular) proposition) is non-truth-functional if and only if the truth value of a proposition in which it appears is ...

Synthetic

Philosophy; General philosophy

A sentence, proposition, thought, or judgement is synthetic if it is neither logically (analytically) true, or false; generally, synthetic claims are said to be empirical in that they are discovered ...

Syntactics

Philosophy; General philosophy

The characterization, for an artificial, or natural, language, of what constitutes a well-formed sentence, or, to put it another way, a grammatical sentence, or a sentence of the language. It is ...

Substance

Philosophy; General philosophy

What underlies the various qualities of an object. In the later tradition substance comes to be considered a transcendent notion.

Russell’s theory of descriptions

Philosophy; General philosophy

Roughly, the view that sentences in which phrases of the form the-so-and-so appear can be reduced to more revealing logical forms in which "the" disappears and in which there is no longer any ...