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Adonai

Philosophy; General philosophy

A Hebrew word that means Lord, which was used in reading the sacred scrolls as a substitute for the unutterable name of four letters, the J-H-V-H. This term was used by mediaeval writers as a name ...

Victor Adler

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1852-1918) Founder and leader of the Austrian social democracy and a member of the International Socialist Bureau. He is regarded was a social chauvinist during World War I.

Max Adler

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1873-1937) Leading theoretician and philosopher of Austro-Marxism who helped supply it with some of its radical formulations.

Affinity-reality-communication (ARC) triangle

Philosophy; General philosophy

A triangle which is a symbol of the fact that affinity, reality and communication act together to bring about understanding. No point of the triangle can be raised without also raising the other two ...

Affirmative proposition

Philosophy; General philosophy

A statement whose propositional quality is determined by its assertion that some or all members of one class of things are also included as members of some other class. Examples: "All spaniels are ...

Aflatun

Philosophy; General philosophy

Arabic for Plato (428-7 -348-7 B.C.) One of the greatest of Greek philosophers; disciple of Socrates on whose dialectic his whole philosophy is mainly based. The central doctrine is his theory of ...

Adiafora

Philosophy; General philosophy

Greek term used by the classical Stoics to designate actions that are morally indifferent. On this view, we have no direct obligation either to perform or to avoid such actions, even when they might ...