General philosophy

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artificial intelligence (AI)

Philosophy; General philosophy

The use of programs to enable machines to perform tasks which humans perform using their intelligence. Early AI avoided human psychological models, but this orientation has been altered by the ...

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 ...

ashab aal-mazallah

Philosophy; General philosophy

The People of the Shaded Place, i.e. the Stoics, so called because the founder of the school of Stoicism, Zeno (fl. 308 B.C.), use to teach in a stoa (a porch) in Athens. The Stoics inculcated a ...

ashab al-buddawah

Philosophy; General philosophy

An expression used in Arabic religio- philosophical literature for the followers of Buddah who is himself sometimes named as Buda Yusuf.

assent

Philosophy; General philosophy

A variation of the concept of informed consent specifically used in reference to research subjects such as children or other persons without the full competence to provide informed consent. For ...

assertoric

Philosophy; General philosophy

A proposition stating that something actually is the case, rather than necessary or merely possible.

associated propositional formula (APF)

Philosophy; General philosophy

A wff A of propositional logic created from a wff B of predicate logic by (1) removing the quantifiers from B, and (2) replacing each predicate symbol (and its arguments) in B with a propositional ...