December 2023

A method of demonstrating how a statement’s truth value is built up from an atomic or simple sentence and the operation of the (main) connective. https://youtube.com/shorts/Qq98IsjJpG4?feature=share

In traditional rationalism, a belief that can be justified solely by appeal to intuition or deduction from premises based upon intuition. Arithmetic and geometry were, for the rationalists as for…

Kant’s term for the basic logical fact of one’s own self-consciousness. Also: That which is necessary for a unified, empirical self-consciousness, and which synthesizes sensations in concert with the categories…

Immanuel Kant’s (1724-1804) argument for basic a prior concepts or categories that contribute to the constitution of knowledge. https://youtube.com/shorts/2eQBivsCVnI?feature=share

An argument in support of a conclusion on the grounds that it provides a necessary prerequisite for some other (uncontroversial) state of affairs. https://youtube.com/shorts/EMSvJ7cKt0w?feature=share

That which is independent of empirical, finite existence; contrasted with immanent. https://youtube.com/shorts/NBahpArmi_c?feature=share

The argument that any theory of universals will entail an infinite regress because if a universal is required to explain the similarity between two individual objects, then another universal is…

(from German, Ding an sich) Kantian terminology for the unknowable objects of the external world (Noumea), which presumably lie behind our perceptions of the external world (phenomena). https://youtube.com/shorts/tZOGY93oz3A?feature=share

Evaluative concept without a substantial descriptive quality (as opposed to a thick concept,which is both substantially descriptive and evaluative). Examples include “good” and“permissible.” https://youtube.com/shorts/8kdeyUK9OW0?feature=share

A concept with both substantially descriptive and evaluative content (as opposed to a thin concept). Paradigmatic examples are found in virtue ethics, and aesthetics. Some philosophers maintain that thick concepts…