The Void: See Nothingness. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems: Oxford, 2004-11. 

Theo-capitalism: The private money capital and commodity sales system conceived as God in its properties of infallibility,  omnipotence and benevolence, eternal necessity of rule, miracles and magic of operations, and rightful attack of all opponents as heretics requiring conversion or conquest. See also False religion and Ruling value-syntax. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All… Read More

Theoretical sentence: A sentence essentially containing a term whose meaning is embedded in a particular scientific theory. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems: Oxford, 2004-11. 

Theories of truth: conformity to fact (correspondence); consistency with respect to other beliefs held to be true (coherence); manifest utility that gives no reason to doubt (pragmatism); reasoned agreement without prior foundations (constructivism). Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume… Read More

Theory of probability: A theory designed to interpret the term ‘probability’ and to obtain initial probability values for probability claims. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems: Oxford, 2004-11. 

Transcendental: In Kant’s philosophy, the subjective conditions for objective knowledge. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems: Oxford, 2004-11. 

Transcendental deduction: Logical analysis in which the necessary presuppositions of the intelligibility of a claim or position are deduced from it as self-evident (eg., the necessary presupposition that all humanity is European in the statement “Columbus discovered America”). Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John… Read More

Transcendental God: God understood as separate from and above the world, eternal and unchanging in nature, and unaffected by human history – the standard conception of theisms across cultures. A life-coherently transcendental possibility of God – developing as the laws of the universe and the world develop but impelling more inclusive possibility beyond them – is… Read More

Truth: Truth is not an end state, but a process of more coherently inclusive taking into account: With way stations of soundness, that is, consistency with available evidence, other statements and requirements of life support systems. See also Validity. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John… Read More

Truth-functional argument schema: A sentence essentially containing a term whose meaning is embedded in a particular scientific theory. Source: ‘What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems: Oxford, 2004-11.