General philosophy

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realist

Philosophy; General philosophy

Generally, someone who claims that various sorts of things that are not realized completely in our (sensory) experience are real. The things in question might be, e.g.: numbers, infinite ...

A sentence, proposition, thought, or judgment 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 ...

psychological egoism

Philosophy; General philosophy

In ethics and psychology, the view that in fact all human beings act solely in their individual self-interest (so far as they calculate correctly as to what this is). This view -- particularly in the ...

propositional logic

Philosophy; General philosophy

Also called sentence logic and the sentential calculus. Such a logic concerns elementary propositions - p, q, r, s, etc. -- respecting which the only assumption is that they should individually be ...