theory

A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states

To regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing

Act or process of knowing

To make transcendental.

Various concepts of development or evolution popularised by Charles Darwin's publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859.

The topological space in which each point represents a possible state of a system.

The technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory.

To find a seemingly rational explanation for something.

To be the ultimate cause of.

Exhibiting or relating to prescience; prescient.

Demonstrated to be false.

Semiotics, the study of signs.

A philosophical theory of textual criticism; a form of critical analysis that emphasizes inquiry into the variable projection of the meaning and message of critical works, the meaning in relation to the reader and the intended audience, and the assumptions implicit in the embodied forms of expression.

A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.

A classification into two subclasses or opposed parts.

The study of chaos and chaotic systems

Pertaining to, resulting from, or characterised by association; capable of associating; tending to associate or unite.

To establish the falsity of a claim or belief; to show or to tend to show that a theory or hypothesis is not valid.

A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.

According to Michel Foucault, the aggregate of institutional, physical and administrative mechanisms and knowledge structures that enhance and maintain the exercise of power within society.