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aristotelian logic

Philosophy; General philosophy

Traditional categorical logic, as developed originally in the Organon of Aristotle.

aristotelianism

Philosophy; General philosophy

A tradition, dating from the medieval period, concerned with promoting and defending significant portions of the philosophy of Aristotle.

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.

arjuna

Philosophy; General philosophy

A personality in the Bhagavat gita, son and avatar of indra, allegorically representing man; also spoken of as Nara.

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 ...