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AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY

The earliest indigenous African philosophy to produce written documents emerged during the seventeenth century, especially in Ethiopia. Zera Yacob (1599–1692), whose Hatata (1667) has been compared to René Descartes’ Discourse…
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The language sketched above is better referred to as first-order predicate calculus, as the language only quantifies over (first-order) individuals. A stronger language, second-order predicate calculus, can therefore be constructed…
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PHILOSOPHICAL BOOKS AND TEXT

ESSENTIAL READING IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY BOOKS TO GUIDE NOVICE PHILOSOPHY STUDENTS INTRODUCTORY PHILOSOPHY TEXTS GUIDES TO PHILOSOPHICAL WRITING INTRODUCTORY LOGIC TEXTS CRITICAL THINKING AND LOGIC TEXTBOOKS
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Political philosophy is at least as old as Plato (428/227 or 424/423-348/347 BC) and is concerned with the nature of the state and, more broadly, with coercive institutions, and their…
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CRITICAL THINKING AND LOGIC TEXTBOOKS

Textbooks on critical thinking and logic.
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INTRODUCTORY LOGIC TEXTS

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THE ARGUMENTATIVE PAPER

Essays of assertion, affirmation, and refutation are all examples of the argumentative paper. An effective argument relies on factually true premises or premises for which you have strong support.
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RELEVANCE LOGICS

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NON-CLASSICAL LOGIC

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Declarative sentence

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Generalization

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Nominalism

The metaphysical position that the only things that exist are particulars (as opposed to universals). Similarities shared by objects apparently instantiating the same properties are therefore to be understood as…
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Fallacy
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Idea
V
Valid argument
A
Aphorism
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Rational
K
KK Thesis
P
Proof
F
Fact-value distinction
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Human rights
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