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91Speech act — For the US Act, see SPEECH Act of 2010. Speech Act is a technical term in linguistics and the philosophy of language. The contemporary use of the term goes back to John L. Austin s doctrine of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts.… …
92Averroes — Ibn Rušd (ابن رشد) Averroes Statue of Averroes in Cordoba Full name ʾAbū l Walīd Muḥammad ibn ʾAḥmad ibn Rušd …
93Determinism — This article is about the general notion of determinism in philosophy. For other uses, see Determinism (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Fatalism, Predeterminism, or Predictability. Certainty series …
94Reductionism — Descartes held that non human animals could be reductively explained as automata De homine, 1662. Reductionism can mean either (a) an approach to understanding the nature of complex things by reducing them to the interactions of their parts, or… …
95Otto Neurath — Otto Karl Wilhelm Neurath Full name Otto Karl Wilhelm Neurath Born December 10, 1882(1882 12 10) Vienna, Austro Hungarian Empire (now in Austria) Died December 22, 1945(1945 12 22) (aged 63) Oxford, UK …
96Jacques Derrida — Derrida redirects here. For the documentary film, see Derrida (film). For the physicist, see Bernard Derrida. Jacques Derrida Full name Jacques Derrida Born July 15, 1930(1930 07 15) El Biar ( …
97Fact — For other uses, see Fact (disambiguation). A fact (derived from the Latin Factum, see below) is something that has really occurred or is actually the case. The usual test for a statement of fact is verifiability, that is whether it can be shown… …
98Paul Feyerabend — Full name Paul Feyerabend Born January 13, 1924(1924 01 13) Vienna, Austria Died February 11, 1994 …
99W. H. R. Rivers — Photograph of Rivers taken by Henry Maull Born 12 March 1864(1864 03 12) …
100Rationalism — This article is about the philosophical method, position, theory, or view. For other uses, see Rationalism (disambiguation). In epistemology and in its modern sense, rationalism is any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or… …
