Ambiguity — Sir John Tenniel s illustration of the Caterpillar for Lewis Carroll s Alice s Adventures in Wonderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male s face with a pointed nose and pointy chin or being… … Wikipedia
ambiguity — Having more than one meaning. The simplest case is lexical ambiguity, where a single term has two meanings. A sentence or grammatically complex construction can be ambiguous without any of the words in it being so, because of structural ambiguity … Philosophy dictionary
Systematic element name — A systematic element name is the temporary name and symbol assigned to newly synthesized and not yet synthesized chemical elements. In chemistry, a transuranic element receives a permanent trivial name and symbol only after its synthesis has been … Wikipedia
Berry paradox — The Berry paradox is a self referential paradox arising from the expression the smallest possible integer not definable by a given number of words. Bertrand Russell, the first to discuss the paradox in print, attributed it to G. G. Berry, a… … Wikipedia
Heraclitus — Catherine Osborne No philosopher before Socrates can have had such a profound influence on so many generations of subsequent thinkers as Heraclitus. Nor can any thinker, probably in the whole history of philosophy, have inspired such a wide range … History of philosophy
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Mulla Sadra — (c. 979–1050/1571–1640) Sadr al Din Muhammad al Shirazi, more commonly known by his honorific title Mulla (‘Master’) Sadra, is without doubt the most important and influential of the modern Islamic philosophers. He studied with the great… … Islamic philosophy dictionary
Law of excluded middle — This article uses forms of logical notation. For a concise description of the symbols used in this notation, see Table of logic symbols. In logic, the law of the excluded middle states that the propositional calculus formula P ∨ ¬ P ( P or not P… … Wikipedia
Andrea Bonomì — (1940 ) is an Italian philosopher and logician. Born in Rome in 1940, he studied with Enzo Paci. After an initial interest in phenomenology ( Existence and structure: Essay on Merleau Ponty , 1967), he decided to dedicate himself wholeheartedly… … Wikipedia
pathetic fallacy — Projecting or displacing human emotions and feelings onto things that do not have them, although they may prompt emotions in us. We are supposed to commit the fallacy by talking of angry weather and sad trees. But the descriptions may be apt with … Philosophy dictionary
