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An argument in support of a conclusion on the grounds that it provides a necessary prerequisite for some other (uncontroversial) state of affairs. https://youtube.com/shorts/EMSvJ7cKt0w?feature=share

That which is independent of empirical, finite existence; contrasted with immanent. https://youtube.com/shorts/NBahpArmi_c?feature=share

The argument that any theory of universals will entail an infinite regress because if a universal is required to explain the similarity between two individual objects, then another universal is…

(from German, Ding an sich) Kantian terminology for the unknowable objects of the external world (Noumea), which presumably lie behind our perceptions of the external world (phenomena). https://youtube.com/shorts/tZOGY93oz3A?feature=share

Evaluative concept without a substantial descriptive quality (as opposed to a thick concept,which is both substantially descriptive and evaluative). Examples include “good” and“permissible.” https://youtube.com/shorts/8kdeyUK9OW0?feature=share

A concept with both substantially descriptive and evaluative content (as opposed to a thin concept). Paradigmatic examples are found in virtue ethics, and aesthetics. Some philosophers maintain that thick concepts…

In the philosophy of science, the claim that there is no neutral observational language against which we can test our theories. As all observation is dependent upon theoretical interpretation, scientific…

The belief in God. https://youtube.com/shorts/FO1RZp4M6XY?feature=share

A word naming a category or class of things in a proposition or deductive argument. https://youtube.com/shorts/WNjYniPXtas?feature=share

From the Greek telos, meaning “purpose,” the view that everything has an end, goal,function, or purpose. The explanation of phenomena in terms of their overall purpose—for example, animals have certain…