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Kant’s philosophy continued to dominate throughout the nineteenth century, although there were increasing concerns about the overall coherence of his system; in particular, there was doubt as to whether the…
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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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NON-CLASSICAL LOGIC

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GUIDES TO PHILOSOPHICAL WRITING

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Epistemology is the study of knowledge, including its nature and its extent, and of justification (that is, whether a belief is formed in a valid way to justify its being…
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The philosophy of mathematics is traditionally concerned with the ontological and epistemological foundations of mathematics. The two questions, of ontology and epistemology, are intimately related, as a satisfactory account of…
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Atomism was founded by Leucippus (who flourished around 440 BC) but was primarily elaborated by Democritus (c. 460-370 BC) as a way of reconciling the Eleatic doctrine of the impossibility…
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Writing effectively for a philosophy course does not merely start with the general principles of good writing just outlined, it sets out to show mastery of these principles. It embodies…
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In the classical logics already discussed, the logical connectives are taken to be bivalent—that is, they allow of only two different truth values: true and false. One natural extension to…
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As the Middle East is often called the cradle of civilization, it is also the source of some of the earliest philosophical literature. Much of it is devoted to what…
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Writing PhilosophyESSENTIAL WRITING SKILLS
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Having just walked through the basic process of writing a philosophy paper, we turn now to the essential skillset you should develop and apply not only to the writing of…
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RELEVANCE LOGICS

A relevance logic is motivated by the idea that the premises of a valid argument must be somehow “relevant” to its conclusion. The idea is motivated by the fact that…
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Terms & Concepts

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Absolute time

The view that time exists independently of (that is, not relative to) objects and events said to be in them. (See also Absolute space.) https://youtube.com/shorts/wmVNX-8Cnds?feature=share
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Invalid

An evaluation term for a formally fallacious argument. An argument is invalid when the premises are true, but the conclusion is false. https://youtube.com/shorts/6qoicR_XaGI?feature=share
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Forms

In Plato’s metaphysics, the immaterial, immutable, eternal entities that make individualthings possible and are the pure objects of knowledge. Usually capitalized. https://youtube.com/shorts/MLsgwSsVkms?feature=share
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Cause-of-itself (causa sui)
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Appeal to pity (ad misericordiam)
P
Pluralism
R
Rationalism
G
Game theory
Q
Quantity
R
Reflective equilibrium
A
Absolutism
L
Law of contradiction
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