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Truth-functional operator

Philosophy; General philosophy

An operator in a logical language (see sentence logic) is said to be truth functional if and only if the truth value of a proposition in which it appears is wholly determined by the truth value of ...

Theory of truth

Philosophy; General philosophy

This subject could also be called semantics. The correspondence theory of truth insists on the common sense view that what makes a sentence true is its correspondence to something external to ...

Transcendental

Philosophy; General philosophy

Relating to the grounds of possible experience e.g. Kant thought that most of our pure rational knowledge is synthetic or priori, or transcendental. Thus Kant believed that geometry expresses the ...

Hume’s argument against causation

Philosophy; General philosophy

How can know that (sensory event) A is the cause of some (sensory event) B? Since A and B are distinguishable, we do not think of one being the cause of the other until, through experience, we find ...

Behaviourism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The view that psychology should, or must, confine itself to describing observable physical behavior. Analytic behaviourism expresses this view as a view about the meaning of psychological words (i.e. ...

Atomism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Generally, the view that the whole is nothing more than the sum of its parts. Physically, the view that the universe is composed of independent, self-sufficient atoms (nothing more), and that a ...

A priori

Philosophy; General philosophy

A sentence, proposition, thought or judgement is a priori (literally "before") if its truth is not dependent on how our actual experience (experiment and observation) happens to turn out. Many have ...