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Terms & Concepts

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Tautological consequence

A statement that follows from another statement (or statements) by means of the truth functional connectives; there is no truth table row on which the statement in question is false,while…
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Disjunction
N
Naturalistic fallacy
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Immanent
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Strong argument
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Final cause
M
Monotheism
P
Possible world
M
Method of doubt (Methodological doubt)
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