Fundamental Terms of Philosophy, Logic, and Physics

The following are links to definitions of some fundamental terms of philosophy, logic, and physics, as found in the hypertext Human Knowledge: Foundations and Limits.

acceleration
action
aesthetics
affect
aggression
agnosticism
altruism
analytic proposition
anarchism
angular momentum
appetite
artifact
asceticism
atheism
authenticity
awareness
axiological naturalism
axiology
bad
beauty
being
body
cause
change
circumstance
coercion
cognition
collectivism
comedy
communism
competition
concept
conceptualism
consciousness
conservation
continuer
contract
cooperation
copyright
cynicism
death
deception
decidability
decision
deduction
defamation
deism
deontologism
determine
determinism
displacement
distance
divinity
dualism
duration
effect
egoism
electric charge
electricity
electromagnetism
electron
electroweak force
elementary particle
empiricism
energy
entity
entropy
epistemology
ethics
eudaimonism
event
evidence
evil
evolution
exist
existentialism
experience
extension
extropianism
extropy
fact
faith
field
fluid
force
fraud
freedom
free will
functionalism
future
gas
gauge boson
gluon
god
good
graviton
gravity
hadron
heat
hedonism
hypothesis
idea
idealism
identity
inclusive fitness
individualism
induction
inertia
inertial frame
inference
influence
injustice
instant
intellectual property
intelligence
intension
intention
intentionality
invention
justice
kilogram
kindness
knowledge
learning
lepton
libertarianism
liberty
life
liquid
living
logic
machine
magnet
magnetism
mass
materialism
mathematics
matter
meaning
meme
metaphysics
meter
mind
moment of inertia
momentum
monopoly
monotheism
mysticism
naturalism
natural monopoly
natural science
natural selection
nature
necessary
nominalism
objectivity
ontology
organism
pantheism
parsimony
particle
past
patent
perception
person
pessimism
philosophy
photon
physicalism
physics
pietism
polytheism
position
positivism
possibility
power
predicate
predicate calculus
property
property, logical
proposition
propositional calculus
qualia
quantifier
quantum
quark
rationalism
realism
reality
reasoning
relation
religion
resource
right
right
sadism
science
scientific method
second
sensation
sentience
set theory
skepticism
socialism
solid
solipsism
space
spacetime
spirit
state
stoicism
strong fuclear force
subjectivity
sublimity
substance dualism
sufficient
supernaturalism
survivalism
synthetic proposition
temperature
term
theism
theology
theory
thermal equilibrium
time
topology
torque
torture
tragedy
truth
turing test
understanding
universal
universe
utilitarianism
value
variable
velocity
verifiability principle
vice
virtue
volition
weak nuclear force
welfare statism
wisdom
wisdom
work
wrong
zombie

Created 2002-04-05 by Brian Holtz