December 2023

That which is self-caused, or whose essence includes existence—that is, necessary existence. Often said of God. https://youtube.com/shorts/EEOqd4SHkpA?feature=share

That which brings something about. That which explains a happening. https://youtube.com/shorts/ludNRqm-OLk?feature=share

One event (cause) brings about another event (effect). Causes and effects are considered lawlike natural events https://youtube.com/shorts/lnczRqSkCgo?feature=share

The theory that sensations and ideas are caused by physical things acting upon our organs of sense. https://youtube.com/shorts/neBGV0mB2A0?feature=share

The theory of mind that mind and body causally interact: mental events cause bodily events, and vice versa. https://youtube.com/shorts/2yd0pzNO4Q0?feature=share

An error of reasoning based on placing an entity in the wrong ontological or semantic category; Gilbert Ryle (1900-1976) famously argued that the metaphysical distinction between the mind and body…

1) Aristotle’s four-fold classification system of language and ontology. 2) Kant’s term, which he took from Aristotle, for the basic and a priori concepts that structure human knowledge. https://youtube.com/shorts/AM-dTf2DPv4?feature=share

A syllogism consisting entirely of categorical claims; three terms (categories) each appear twice. https://youtube.com/shorts/Bff7kbls-Lw?feature=share

An assertion relating two classes of object: universal affirmative (All S are P), universal negative (No S are P), particular affirmative (Some S are P), and particular negative (Some S…

A deductive system of logic first established by Aristotle, which studies the relations between categories of things. https://youtube.com/shorts/1SZRoRDyOnk?feature=share