Tautologous schema: A sentence schema such that it necessarily becomes a true sentence (tautology) when its variables are appropriately replaced. 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. 

Technology: Technology is any humanly built tool which extends the organic capabilities of human beings. 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. 

Teleology: explanation of phenomena on the grounds of their intrinsic end or purpose. either (a) teleonomy, or (b) the idea that natural phenomena are caused by an end or purpose which they serve. 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,… Read More

Teleonomy: the idea that organs have functions within the organism, that the organism itself has goals, and that the study of organisms and organs needs to be conducted with reference to these goals. 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,… Read More

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.