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A Must Have Book For Every Philosophy Student
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Constitute

First used in a technical way by Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), and later by Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), to synthesize experience through a priori categories. https://youtube.com/shorts/k0sOmOeJ9LE?feature=share
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December 6, 2023
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Consequentialism

The ethical view that the rightness or wrongness of an action is determined by itsconsequences. https://youtube.com/shorts/WS3xSCC4V8s?feature=share
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December 6, 2023
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Consequent

The “then” clause in an “if…then” (conditional) claim is the consequent. https://youtube.com/shorts/f_xpmIj9CWw?feature=share
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December 4, 2023
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Conscience

One’s internal moral compass, as in the view that God instills in us a moral sense. Conscience is a sort of moral intuition—that is, an undefended or unexamined moral sense.…
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December 4, 2023
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Connective

In symbolic logic, a connective (negation, conjunction, disjunction, conditional, andbiconditional) is used to make new statements out of simpler ones. https://youtube.com/shorts/HSdrQUSwJT8?feature=share
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December 4, 2023
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Conjunction introduction

In symbolic logic, a valid inference in a system of truth-functional rules. In a derivation, two statements can be inferred using the conjunction symbol, since a statement governed by the…
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December 4, 2023
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Conjunction elimination

In symbolic logic, a valid inference in a system of truth-functional rules. Because a statement governed by a conjunction is true if, and only if, each of the conjuncts is…
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December 4, 2023
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Conjunction

The ordinary language name for the Boolean connective that corresponds to, for example, “and,” “both…and,” and “but.” On a truth table, the conjunction of sentences is true if, and only…
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December 4, 2023
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Conjunct

A component of a sentence governed by the Boolean connective, conjunction. https://youtube.com/shorts/OhZPnIUdcjA?feature=share
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December 4, 2023