This page gathers the 2,147 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Philosophy”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 21 of 22: from “transitivity” to “wain”.
- transitivity noun The property of being transitive.
- transitwise adv In terms of a planetary or astrological transit.
- transmisogynist adj Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting transmisogyny.
- transphenomenal adj Of or pertaining to a process, nature, or realm which cannot be directly experienced using such human faculties as conceptualization or…
- transtemporal adj Across time; persistent.
- treacherous turn noun A hypothetical tactic used by strong artificial intelligence, where the AI feigns alignment until it accrues enough power to become…
- tree noun The fifth Lenormand card.
- tree nymph noun In Greek myth, a female tree spirit; a dryad.
- trickster noun Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions, who use guile and secret knowledge to challenge authority and…
- trigon noun A division consisting of three star signs.
- trilemma noun An argument containing three alternatives, jointly exhaustive either under any condition(s) or under all condition(s) consistent with the…
- trine verb To put in the aspect of a trine.
- trioctile noun An aspect of two planets with regard to the Earth when they are three octants, or three eighths of a circle (135 degrees), distant from…
- triple goddess noun A female triune deity, either one goddess with three distinct aspects or manifestations, or three goddesses who form a unit.
- triplicity noun The division of the twelve signs according to the four elements.
- Tritonian adj Of or pertaining to the classical Greek god Triton.
- trivial adj Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
- trivialism noun The theory that every proposition and its negation is true.
- trivialist noun A proponent of trivialism, the metaphysical and logical theory that all propositions are true.
- trollfolk noun Trolls (“supernatural beings living in caves or hills or under bridges”) collectively.
- trope noun Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
- tropic noun The component of tone or rhetoric in a sentence.
- tropical astrology noun A form of astrology that measures the position of the celestial bodies relative to the vernal equinox. This does not compensate for the…
- tropology noun The interpretation of scripture or other work in order to educe moral or figurative meaning; a treatise of such interpretation.
- true adj Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
- truth table noun A table showing all possible truth values for an expression, derived from the truth values of its components.
- truth tree noun A variation of a truth table in which any node (representing a statement) has branches if and only if other statements (true or false) may…
- truth value noun A value indicating to what extent a statement is true; in classical logic, these are the values "true" and "false".
- truth-functional adj Of or relating to a truth function; having a truth value that depends solely on the truth values of its components.
- truth-functional logic noun The logic of truth-functional combinations of simple sentences; the branch of logic that investigates the properties that arguments…
- trying noun The act by which one tries something; an attempt.
- Tuatha Dé Danann noun The fifth group of inhabitants of Ireland according to the Lebor Gabála Érenn tradition, thought to represent the gods of the Goidelic…
- tulpa noun A magical creature that attains corporeal reality, having been originally merely imaginary.
- turbocapitalism noun An accelerated form of capitalism that lacks measures to keep the system in equilibrium and prevent social unrest.
- Turing degree noun A measure of the level of algorithmic unsolvability of the decision problem of whether a given set of natural numbers contains any given…
- turnstile noun The ⊢ symbol used to represent logical entailment (deducibility relation), especially of the syntactic type; i.e., syntactic consequence.…
- two-sided adj That is necessarily or absolutely different than the respective coordinate alethic or temporal modality as well as its opposite.
- ultrafinitism noun A form of finitism that is even more extreme in that it denies those constructs whose construction cannot be physically performed (such as…
- un-othering noun negative gerund of other: the process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as essentially related and included.
- unblue adj Not blue.
- unconditional noun A conditional-like structure expressing that the consequent holds true regardless of the particular value of the antecedent.
- undermine verb To regard an object as the sum of the parts that compose it, in object-oriented ontology.
- underworld noun The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.
- unessence noun Lack of essence; that which is not essence.
- ungroundable adj Impossible to ground.
- unicorn noun A mythical horse-like creature with a horn on its forehead.
- unification noun An algorithmic process of solving equations between symbolic expressions.
- universal noun A characteristic or property that particular things have in common.
- universal quantifier noun The operator, represented by the symbol ∀, used in predicate calculus to indicate that a predicate is true for all members of a specified…
- universalisability noun The quality (as of a rule) of being able to be applied universally; that is, to any given situation with no exceptions.
- universalism noun The concept or belief that some ideas have universal application or applicability.
- univocity noun The idea that words describing the properties of God mean the same thing as when they apply to people or things.
- unqualitied adj Not possessing qualities.
- unsayable adj Not capable of being said.
- unsayably adv In a manner which is inexpressible or is not describable.
- unverity noun A value equal to 1 minus the truth value of a statement.
- uranian adj Of Aphrodite Urania, the heavenly aspect of the Greek goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus, as contrasted…
- urinary leash noun The former situation of women being largely confined to their homes because of a lack of public toilets for women.
- urinterpretation noun An intentionalist form of interpretation that seeks to capture the author's intention but not necessarily the author's possibly flawed…
- urs noun The death anniversary of a Sufi saint, usually held at the dargah.
- use-mention distinction noun The distinction between the use of a word for its meaning (as in cheese is derived from milk) and the mention of a word as a lexical unit…
- usiarch noun A spiritual being, entity, or divine intellect that rules, governs, or gives shape to a specific realm of existence or level of being.
- Ustashe adj Of or pertaining to Croatian ultranationalism.
- utilitarian adj Pertaining to utilitarianism.
- utilitarianism noun A system of ethics based on the premise that something's value may be measured by its usefulness.
- utility noun Well-being, satisfaction, pleasure, or happiness.
- utility monster noun A hypothetical sentient being that derives much more hedonic pleasure from resources than ordinary beings do; in some critiques of…
- utopian socialism noun Socialism that is focussed on planning and building a flawless and egalitarian society, but has little to no concern with methodology…
- utukku noun In Sumerian religion, a class of spirits who had escaped the underworld, either by their own power or by being summoned forth by a priest.
- vacuist noun A believer in vacuism; someone who holds the doctrine that there is a vacuum in the space between the bodies of the universe, or the…
- vacuous truth noun A proposition which is true only because it is a conditional statement with a necessarily false premise, or which asserts a property of all…
- vacuously adv Because of being a vacuous truth.
- valid adj Of a formula or system: such that it evaluates to true regardless of the input values.
- valkyrie noun Any of the female attendants of Odin, figures said to guide fallen warriors from the battlefield to Valhalla.
- valuation noun An assignment of truth values to propositional variables, with a corresponding assignment of truth values to all propositional formulas…
- valuation function noun A function which assigns a truth value to every well-formed formula, which is identical to the model's interpretation function when applied…
- value judgment noun A judgment of the rightness or wrongness of something, based on a particular set of values or on a particular value system.
- vampirism noun The state of being a vampire.
- venereal adj Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Venus; lascivious, lustful.
- veridicality noun The degree to which something, such as a knowledge structure, is veridical; the degree to which an experience, perception, or…
- verifiability principle noun The principle, especially in 20th-century empiricism, that a statement has meaning if, and only if, either it can be verified by means of…
- verifiable noun A statement or observation that can be verified.
- veristic adj Having multiple valid solutions.
- vertex noun The point where the prime vertical meets the ecliptic in the western hemisphere of a natal chart.
- vespertine adj That sets after the sun.
- vestal adj Alternative form of vestal (Pertaining to the goddess Vesta)
- vicious circle noun A fallacy in which the premise is used to prove a conclusion which is then used to prove the premise.
- victory noun Alternative letter-case form of Victory (“(uncountable) the Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike; also…
- view from nowhere noun A purely objective description of something, without any subjectivity.
- vimana noun A mythological flying palace or chariot described in Hindu texts and Sanskrit epics.
- vinculum noun A horizontal line placed over a symbol or expression to denote logical negation (complement).
- Virgoan adj Of, or pertaining to, the Virgo star sign.
- visitor noun An extraterrestrial being on Earth.
- vivarta noun A turning or whirling.
- Voltairean adj Of or pertaining to François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778; pen name "Voltaire"), French writer, essayist, and philosopher known for his wit and…
- voluntarism noun A doctrine that assigns the most dominant position to the will rather than the intellect.
- Vril noun A controllable form of energy.
- Vulcanian adj Of, related to, or created by Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalwork, considered equivalent to the Greek Hephaestus and several German…
- VX noun Vertex.
- wain noun A chariot or similar stately carriage.