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Faith F

Faith

A belief (most commonly in God) absent rational reasons or even in direct opposition torationality. (Note that some have defended faith in God as rational.) https://youtube.com/shorts/wNE4RcMS-0E?feature=share
Philosophy Student
December 7, 2023
Facticity F

Facticity

First employed by Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814), the word can be used to refer to factsand factuality, but as used by Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) and Neo-Kantian philosophers,has come to mean…
Philosophy Student
December 7, 2023
Fact-value distinction F

Fact-value distinction

The apparently fundamental contrast between descriptive statements and their evaluation, asexemplified by David Hume’s contention that one cannot logically derive an “ought” (such asan ethical proscription against murder) from an…
Philosophy Student
December 7, 2023
Extension E

Extension

The set of things to which an expression applies; to be contrasted with the intension of anexpression (roughly, its meaning). Extension is also not the same as reference—for instance,the term…
Philosophy Student
December 6, 2023
Extended E

Extended

That which occupies space; used by, such philosophers as Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz todefine physical bodies. https://youtube.com/shorts/6skKILkK6Fc?feature=share
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December 6, 2023
Explanation E

Explanation

In contrast to a justification for a claim, where by one attempts to prove the claim is true, an explanation provides an account, usually causal, of a claim already accepted…
Philosophy Student
December 6, 2023
Existentialism E

Existentialism

The twentieth-century philosophical movement popularized by atheistic existentialist Jean Paul Sartre; but some core elements were developed by nineteenth-century Christian thinker Søren Kierkegaard. https://youtube.com/shorts/5AgvPwc5Rh0?feature=share
Philosophy Student
December 6, 2023