Neoplatonism, 108, 116, 124, 127, 130,
430–432, 435–437, 440–445, 449,
596, 796, 799, 828, 829, 958n34,
958n37
Neo-Pythagoreans, 109, 111, 114, 125,
126, 128, 442, 448, 847
Netherlands, 496, 529, 567, 575, 585,
589–591, 598
Networks, theory of, 2, 5–6, 64–68, 71–
76, 379
Neutral monism, 724
New Text School, 157–158, 794–795,
806, 884
Nominalism, 221, 238, 259, 269, 465–
466, 487–490, 497, 518–519, 555, 820,
821, 826–830. See also Names, school
of; Name and form
Non-Euclidean Geometry, 699
Numerology, 101, 109, 312, 416, 550,
552, 798–799
Nyaya, 188, 228–233, 244, 257, 262, 269–
- See also Nyaya-Vaisheshika
Nyaya-Vaisheshika, 226, 232, 237, 241–
242, 249, 252, 256, 259–262, 266, 822,
836
Occasionalism, 398–401, 411–413, 587,
612, 652, 821, 840, 842–843
Occultism and spiritualism, 805–807; in
Greece, 120–127; in China, 152–158; in
Europe, 610, 669, 731, 748. See also
Numerology
Ockham’s razor, 485–486
Old Text School, 157–158, 169–170, 173,
794–795, 884
Ontology, 89, 97, 125, 236–240, 244–
245, 255, 263–267, 419, 469, 555, 654–
655, 713, 720, 810
Opposition, division of attention space by,
6, 137, 379, 792, 811
Oratorians, 524, 583
Organizational bases of intellectuals. See
Academies; Courts; Libraries; Medicine;
Monasteries; Patronage; Publishing; Re-
ligions (specific entries); Schools; Transla-
tion bureaus; Universities
“Oriental logic,” 375
Papacy, 445–446, 455–458, 460, 462–463,
479, 497, 518, 743
Paris, 73, 528–529, 531, 583; critical
mass for intellectual market, 774; as
international literary center, 1023n13.
See also Christendom, intellectual cen-
ters in
Pascal’s wager, 586
Patronage: in Greece, 88, 95, 113; in
China, 169; in India, 180–191; in Is-
lamic world, 410, 434, 453; in Europe,
497, 554, 585, 595, 598, 601–602, 605,
608, 638–640, 754–755
Peripatetics, Peripatos. See Aristotelean
school
Phenomenology, 688, 737–751, 777–779,
831
Philosophical Radicals (London), 530
Pietism, 625, 639, 650–652, 654
Platonism, 59, 101, 109, 596–597, 500,
600, 610, 675, 716, 957n28; Middle Pla-
tonism, 125, 128, 812, 827, 958n34.
See also Neoplatonism
Pneuma, 106, 107; Pneumatist physicians,
112
Political philosophy, 152–153, 523, 525,
596, 608–609, 660, 803. See also Legal-
ists
Port-Royal, 529, 585–586
Positivism, 684, 688, 693, 690, 696; logi-
cal, 262, 268, 717–730, 750
Postmodernism, 10–13, 789, 750, 756,
834, 845
Potentiality, 236–237, 820–821, 841
Pragmatism, 675, 678–683, 718
Presocratics, 82–87, 95, 147, 319, 744,
804
Protestantism, 524; similar organization in
Taoism, Hinduism, and Japanese Bud-
dhism, 167–168, 227, 323; and scien-
tific revolution, 553–554, 570–571;
early authoritarianism in, 570–572, 575;
liberal, 746–748, 769. See also Calvin-
ism; Evangelicals; Pietism
Psychology, experimental, 669, 670, 674,
681–682, 689–693
Publishing, 72, 355, 370, 528–531, 601–
602, 608, 627, 639, 645, 754, 770, 773–
774, 775; textual commentaries as form
of, 793–794
Pugdalavadins, 215, 253
Pure Brethren, 410, 415–418, 420Index of Subjects^ •^1095