- Incoherent(describing whether moral responsibility can exist)
- Logically impossible or contradictory; something that cannot make sense or cannot exist at the same time as something else.
- Speaking speech(Merleau-Ponty's distinction between two modes of speech; corresponds to the moment of genuine creation in expression.)
- The generative, creative dimension of expression — the act by which a speaker produces something genuinely new, transforming the shared linguistic substrate.
- Spoken speech(Merleau-Ponty's distinction between two modes of speech; corresponds to the communal, transmissible aspect of language.)
- The sedimented, shared dimension of language — the already-constituted linguistic material that makes expression intelligible to a community.
- collapses into(as used in philosophical reasoning)
- Loses its distinct identity and merges with or reduces to something else.
- complementary(as used in this philosophical argument)
- When two things work together and enhance each other, like how peanut butter and jelly complement each other.
- distinction(One of the two components of Arendtian plurality)
- The aspect of plurality by which no two human beings are ever interchangeable, each being endowed with a unique biography and perspective on the world
- form of life(Wittgensteinian concept applied by Winch to rationality debates)
- A backdrop of norms governing a given language and social practice that determines what counts as rational within that context.
- meaning(Possible-worlds semantic theory of meaning)
- A rule specifying what an expression would stand for if the world were a certain way, rather than what the expression actually stands for in the current circumstance
- rule-following(Kripke's interpretation of Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument)
- Continuing a practice in the same way as a community of like-minded others, such that the community's shared behavior fixes what counts as correct continuation.