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 5 of 22: from “consilience” to “demigod”.
- consilience noun The concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different data sets.
- consistency noun Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory.
- consistent adj Of a set of statements: such that no contradiction logically follows from them.
- constellation noun The configuration of planets at a given time (especially a person's birth), as believed to affect events on Earth, or used for determining…
- constructive logic noun Any kind of logic in which any proof of existence can be converted into an algorithm that constructs the mathematical object which it…
- constructivism noun A psychological epistemology which argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from their experiences.
- contact experience noun A subjective or objective event where a human interacts with alleged non-human intelligence, such as an extraterrestrial being.
- contactee noun A person who has been contacted by alien beings from outer space.
- context noun For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.
- context-sensitive adj Sensitive to context; exhibiting different behaviour depending on a task or situation.
- contextualism noun Any of a group of doctrines that stress the importance of context
- continental philosophy noun Any of various philosophical traditions strongly influenced by certain 19th and 20th century philosophers from mainland Europe, such as…
- contingency noun A statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction.
- continuant noun An endurant.
- contradiction noun A proposition that is false for all values of its propositional variables or Boolean atoms.
- contradictory noun Either of a pair of propositions, that cannot both be true or both be false.
- contrapose verb To place in contraposition.
- contraposed adj Forming a contraposition.
- contraposition noun The statement of the form "if not Q then not P", given the statement "if P then Q".
- contrary noun One of a pair of propositions that cannot both be simultaneously true, though they may both be false.
- contrastivism noun An epistemological theory suggesting that knowledge attributions have a ternary structure of the form "S knows that p rather than q", in…
- conventionalism noun The doctrine that logical or mathematical principles are simply the expression of conventions.
- conventionalist adj Of, pertaining to, or supporting conventionalism
- converse noun Of a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B is true", the statement "If B is true, then A is…
- converse antonym noun Either of a pair of terms that name or describe a single relationship from opposite perspectives, such as parent versus child.
- conversion noun The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or vice versa.
- convert verb To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
- convertend noun Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is…
- convertible adj Able to undergo conversion (i.e., inversion) without falsehood.
- convict verb To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).
- coöriginal adj Existing together ab initio; equiprimordial.
- cord-cutting noun A ritual in which a cord (real or envisioned) is severed to symbolize the conclusion of something unwanted, such as a bad habit or…
- cordate noun Any animal with a heart.
- core belief noun An epistemic assumption that defines an individual or belief system and his or its self-perception and is therefore felt to be true…
- cornucopia noun A goat's horn endlessly overflowing with fruit, flowers and grain; or full of whatever its owner wanted: or, an image of a such a horn…
- corollary noun A proposition which follows easily from the statement or proof of another proposition.
- corporealism noun Materialism.
- corpuscularianism noun The postulate that all physical bodies possess an inner and outer layer of minute particles or corpuscles.
- correlationism noun The philosophical standpoint, rejected by proponents of speculative realism, that we cannot directly access thinking and being, but only…
- correlativism noun A philosophy about perception, proposing an ever-changing interconnection between subject (or perceiver) and object (or perceived).
- cosmological argument noun A type of argument for the existence of God arguing that since every thing and event that begins at a point in time has a cause, there must…
- counterexample noun An example that counters a general rule; an exception to a general rule; a specific instance of the falsity of (and falsifiability of) any…
- counterextension noun The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, do not satisfy the predicate.
- counterfactual noun A conditional statement in which the conditional clause is false.
- counterlegal adj That goes against a system of laws, such as the laws of nature.
- counterproof noun A proof that contradicts a given statement.
- cowalker noun A phantom or astral body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelganger.
- Cratylism noun A philosophical theory holding that there is a natural relationship between words and their referents.
- creation noun All which exists.
- creative destruction noun The process of industrial mutation that continually revolutionizes the economic structure from within.
- Creatorism noun Belief in a creator god. As an alternative to creationism, creatorism is a new emerging term that emphasizes both the existence and…
- critical rationalism noun The proposition that scientific theories, and any other claims to knowledge, can and should be rationally criticized, and, if they have…
- crocodile noun A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.
- cross noun The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
- cum hoc ergo propter hoc noun The logical fallacy of assuming that two events that occur at the same time have a cause-and-effect relationship.
- cup noun A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
- Cupidinian adj Of or relating to Cupid.
- Curete noun A Korybant.
- cusp noun A boundary between zodiacal signs and houses.
- cusper noun A person born on a day at a junction of star signs.
- Cybelean adj Of or relating to the goddess Cybele in Greek and Anatolian mythology.
- cyclopean adj Suggestive of a cyclops.
- cyclops noun A one-eyed giant from Greek and Roman mythology.
- Cyllenean adj Of or relating to Cyllene in Greek mythology.
- cynicism noun A school of thought in the philosophy of Ancient Greece.
- cynocephalus noun A creature with the head of a dog or jackal and the body of a human.
- daemon noun A minor deity or divinity.
- dahu noun A legendary goat-like animal reputed to live in the mountains of France, Switzerland, and Italy.
- daimon noun A tutelary deity or spirit that watches over a person or place.
- daimonic noun The journey and transition from innocence to experience; part of the process of individuation.
- danaid noun Any one of the fifty daughters of Danaus.
- Daphnean adj Of or relating to the naiad Daphne in Greek mythology.
- Daphnidian adj Of or relating to the poet Daphnis in Greek legend.
- dark elf noun A member of the race of Dǫkkálfar or Dark Alfs, creatures who live underground.
- dark forest hypothesis noun A proposed explanation for the Fermi paradox that suggests extraterrestrial civilizations are abundant but remain silent and hidden…
- dasha noun One of various systems of Hindu astrology based on planetary periods, in which these planetary periods have good or bad effects depending…
- De Morgan's law noun The negation of a conjunction is the disjunction of the negations; expressed in propositional logic as: ¬ (𝑝 ∧ 𝑞) ⇔ (¬ 𝑝) ∨ (¬ 𝑞)
- deadness noun The state of not being alive; lifelessness.
- death penny noun Synonym of Charon's obol (“a coin placed in or on the mouth of a deceased person as a bribe or payment for Charon, the ferryman of Hades”).
- decan noun One of a collection of 36 small constellations or zodiacal subdivisions that appear heliacally at intervals of 10 days or are separated by…
- decanate noun Face, one of three parts into which each zodiac sign is divided; a decan.
- deceptionist noun A proponent of deceptionism.
- decidable adj in intuitionistic logic, a proposition P is decidable in a given theory if it can be proven from the theory that "either P or not P", i.e.…
- decile noun An aspect or position of two planets when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac.
- deconstruction noun A philosophical theory of textual criticism; a form of critical analysis that emphasizes inquiry into the variable projection of the…
- deconstructionist adj Characteristic of, related to, or supporting deconstructionism
- decumbiture noun The time one takes to one's bed during an illness, as used for astrological prognostications; or a chart drawn up to express this.
- deduction noun A conclusion; that which is deduced, concluded or figured out.
- deduction theorem noun A procedure for "discharging" assumptions from an inference, causing them to become antecedents of the conclusion; or vice versa.…
- deductive adj Based on inferences from general principles.
- deep embedding noun The act of representing one language, typically a logic or programming language, with another by modeling expressions in the former as data…
- defeater noun a belief which, if proved to be true, would imply outright or indirectly that another belief were false.
- definitionism noun The school of thought that for a theory to be properly explained it is necessary that all concepts used by the theory be well-defined.
- definitive description noun A phrase that designates an object by providing a description that is satisfied by exactly one object.
- deflationary adj Belonging or relating to a family of theories claiming that assertions that predicate truth of a statement do not attribute a property…
- deflationism noun A theory proposing that assertions that predicate truth of a statement do not attribute a property called truth to such a statement.
- degree noun The number of logical connectives in a formula.
- Deimian adj Of or relating to Deimos in Greek mythology.
- deism noun A philosophical belief in the existence of a god (or goddess) knowable through human reason; especially, a belief in a creator god…
- demigod noun A half-god or hero; the offspring of a deity and a mortal.