General philosophy

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Antoine Arnauld

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1612-1694) French theologian and philosopher. Influential as co-author of La logique, ou l'art de penser, Arnauld was active in the seventeenth-century French philosophical community that also ...

Arriaga Manoel Jose D'

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1839-1917) President of the Portuguese Republic. Disinherited by his father, who claimed to be of royal blood, for becoming a freethinker and republican at the university, he turned to law and ...

(1921- ) American economist and social theorist. In Social Choice and Individual Values Arrow introduced the general impossibility theorem, which shows that the rationally collective preference of a ...

Asat

Philosophy; General philosophy

A term meaning the "unreal" or the manifested universe; in contrast with sat, the real. In another and even more mystical sense, asat means even beyond or higher than sat, and therefore asat — "not ...

Arithmetization of analysis

Philosophy; General philosophy

The reduction of the theory of real numbers to that of arithmetic, accomplished by defining a real number as some aggregate of rational numbers, e.g. a Dedkind cut or a Cauchy sequence.