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Tautology T

Tautology

A statement that is true in every possible circumstance; that is, it is true on every row of the truth table in the column under the (main) operator. https://youtube.com/shorts/rglZ891k1NA?feature=share
Philosophy Student
December 11, 2023
Tao (Dao) T

Tao (Dao)

In Confucianism, literally, the “Way.” In Taoism (Daoism), it is the underlying and ineffable“way” of nature or reality. https://youtube.com/shorts/816QfzNiAL4?feature=share
Philosophy Student
December 10, 2023
Tabula Rasa T

Tabula Rasa

The epistemological claim that prior to experience, the mind is a “blank slate,” with no innate ideas or pre-existing concepts. The concept is at least as old as Avicenna (eleventh…
Philosophy Student
December 10, 2023
Synthetic S

Synthetic

Kant’s term for a judgment whose predicate concept is not contained within the subject concept. As such, the predicate extends what is said in the subject. https://youtube.com/shorts/gve9fAoVA4g?feature=share
Philosophy Student
December 10, 2023
Sympathy S

Sympathy

Fellow feeling; a felt concern for other people’s welfare. In the ethics of David Hume (1711-1776) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), sympathy is the necessary and universal sentiment without which morals—and…
Philosophy Student
December 10, 2023