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Terms & Concepts

E

Empirical idealism

The view, most prominently represented by George Berkeley (1685-1753), that only ideas and minds exist; there are no material objects. https://youtube.com/shorts/Sr6Wg06YhwI?feature=share
D

Declarative sentence

A sentence asserting a fact, position, or proposition. https://youtube.com/shorts/JLun8y-NQZQ?feature=share
U

Upanishads

Vedic texts in Hindu thought and religion. (See also Vedas.) https://youtube.com/shorts/LtEUmatsYeY?feature=share
N
Natural law theory
C
Cause
A
Analytic philosophy
F
Fascism
A
Argument
G
Generalization from experience (or Inductive generalization)
D
Disjunction introduction
C
Communitarian ethic
R
Reflexive property
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