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Terms & Concepts

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Disposition

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Immaterialism

The view that non-material entities are real. (See also Materialism.) https://youtube.com/shorts/TiZGjFImQpQ?feature=share
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Transcendent

That which is independent of empirical, finite existence; contrasted with immanent. https://youtube.com/shorts/NBahpArmi_c?feature=share
N
Natural right
C
Constitute
A
Appeal to unqualified authority
P
Polytheism
T
Turing Test
U
Utilitarianism
B
Boolean connectives (Boolean operators)
S
Sublime
F
First-order contradiction
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