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Epistemological theory that knowledge must be acquired via a reliable mechanism, such as a counter factually sensitive causal connection to the fact in question. It is not, however,necessary for the…

The view that reality, knowledge, truth, or morality is relative to an individual, culture, or historical period. https://youtube.com/shorts/-tOIcWvqz8A?feature=share

David Hume’s (1711-1776) term for those beliefs formed entirely by the mind, as in beliefs demonstrable exclusively by rational processes, such as deduction. https://youtube.com/shorts/-7ne9q-zODE?feature=share

A multi-place predicate that expresses a relation between things. https://youtube.com/shorts/tsgAf3eawdE?feature=share

The expression of a self-identity—that is, that a thing is identical to itself. (See also Identityof indiscernibles.) https://youtube.com/shorts/sZ8unf_mZgA?feature=share

A method for justifying a set of beliefs by the simultaneous adjustment of initial principles and resulting theories. For instance, Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) argued that we can justify a particular…

An argument that concludes the negation of a proposition, on the grounds that a contradiction can be derived from that proposition. “Reductio ad absurdum” is literally “reduction to absurdity.” Here,…

An informal fallacy constituted by shifting someone’s argument from one direction to another by changing the subject. https://youtube.com/shorts/fPp3phnWwWs?feature=share

1) Justification for a claim. 2) The capacity, faculty, or ability to think abstractly, such as drawing an inference or contemplating general concepts. https://youtube.com/shorts/2Qw_Q4hSuyg?feature=share

The view that reality is objective. https://youtube.com/shorts/8cy_iHdZlM0?feature=share