General philosophy

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pragmatics

Philosophy; General philosophy

The characterization, for a natural or artificial, language or relationships between sentences, the world, and the situation of speaker and hearer. Pragmatics is particularly concerned with indexical ...

phenominalism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The view that immediate experience (sensations, thoughts, etx. ) is all there might be to reality. B. Russell for example, often took the phenomenalist view that talk about the “external” world of ...

phenomenology

Philosophy; General philosophy

A philosophic movement that originated around the turn of the century on the Continent (see Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations for example). This movement -- like Russell, G. E. Moore, and the analytic ...

performatives

Philosophy; General philosophy

Sentences (or utterances) that serve more to do (than describe) something. Typically, these sentences are in the first person present noncontinuous, with a main verb that indicates a speech action. ...

necessary

Philosophy; General philosophy

A sentence, proposition thought, or judgement is necessary if it is true of any possible world. Some philosophers (e.g. A. J. Ayer) maintain that the truths of logic and mathematics are necessary ...

non-truth-functional

Philosophy; General philosophy

An operator (i.e. Something which if added to one or more propositions makes a (molecular) proposition) is non-truth-functional if and only if the truth value of a proposition in which it appears is ...

neorationalist

Philosophy; General philosophy

A term for those 20th century philosophers who wish to revive aspects of rationalism. Specifically, maintaining mentalism, as opposed to behaviorism, in psychology, possibly insisting on innateness ...