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1. aboutness, n. View full entry 1906
...The quality or fact of relating to or being about something; Philos. (of a mental state, symbol, representation, etc.) the property of being about something (existent or non-existent); cf. ...
2. activist, adj. and n. View full entry 1908
...Philos. Of or relating to the theory of activism (activism2)....
3. alogic, n. View full entry 1935
...Absence of logic; the quality or fact of not being influenced or determined by logic or rationality. Usually in neutral rather than pejorative sense: cf. illogic...
4. analysans, n. View full entry 1942
...A definition proposed as a logical analysis or elucidation of a given concept, expression, etc. Cf. analysandum...
5. analyticity, n. View full entry 1914
...Math. The property of a function of being analytic (analytic2b)....
6. anthropocenˈtrality, n. View full entry 1934
...= anthropocentricism...
7. anthropocentricism | anthropocentrism, n. View full entry 1909
...An anthropocentric view or doctrine....
8. antilogism, n. View full entry 1902
...An inconsistent triad, or set of three propositions which cannot all be true together, obtained by taking the premisses of any valid syllogism together with the negation of the conclusion. ...
9. -ary, suffix1 View full entry 1940
...adjs. repr. (or on analogy of) Latin -ārius ‘connected with, pertaining to’; as arbitrary, contrary, elementary, honorary, mercenary, necessary...
10. axiology, n. View full entry 1908
...The theory of value....
11. Bergsonian, adj. and n. View full entry 1909
...Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the French philosopher, Henri Bergson (1859– 1941)....
12. biconditional, n. View full entry 1940
...The relation between two propositions when one is true only if the other is true, or false if the other is false; the symbolic or verbal representation of such a relation. Also...
13. biodynamic, adj. View full entry 1911
...Of or relating to the dynamics of, or in, living systems, esp. those of the human body in motion. See biodynamics1....
14. biopower, n. View full entry 1978
...Philos. After M. Foucault: the power of a political entity to control and regulate the lives of the populace....
15. blik, n. View full entry 1950
...R. M. Hare's word for a behavioural or affective tendency which influences one's interpretation of experience, a personal slant (on something); a conviction, esp. a religious one....
16. Bradleian, adj. View full entry 1905
...Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of: the English idealist philosopher Francis Herbert Bradley (18461924) or his writings; orhis brother, the Shakespearean critic Andrew Cecil Bradley (1851...
17. categorial, adj. View full entry 1912
...Relating to, or involving, categories, spec. in Logic and Linguistics....
18. causational, adj. View full entry 1909
...Belonging to the law or doctrine of causation....
19. Church, n.2 View full entry 1939
...a theorem stating that all propositions in first-order predicate logic are undecidable....
20. circulus vitiosus, n. View full entry 1902
...= vicious circlevicious9. (In both Logic and Pathol. senses.)...
