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Literally, “to the man,” an ad hominem is an attack on the person, rather than a critical engagement with their position. Versions of the ad hominem are 1) ad hominem…

A hypothesis added to avoid falsification; more specifically, a hypothesis that does not increase the overall content, hence falsifiability, of the theory. An example is the hypothesis of the cosmological…

The view that the rightness of actions is entirely dependent upon the overall happiness individual acts produce. https://youtube.com/shorts/BJ68xUb-HIk?feature=share

The sense, typically associated with existentialism, that existence in general (and life in particular) is meaningless and the universe indifferent, and therefore irrational. This sense arises from the conflict between…

General, as opposed to concrete, and thus independent of any particular. https://youtube.com/shorts/4l5lkGSYB2o?feature=share

The view that there is a single, knowable truth. Moral absolutism is typically contrasted with moral relativism. https://youtube.com/shorts/owMDtGkB5uY?feature=share

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

The view that space exists independently of (that is, not relative to) objects and events said to be in them. (See also Absolute time.) https://youtube.com/shorts/gKx_4OH4EwY?feature=share

An ontologically monistic philosophy, associated mainly with G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Schelling, that dominated philosophical thought in Britain and Germany until the twentieth century. https://youtube.com/shorts/hLT8LoOWHx8?feature=share