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Folk psychology

A set of commonsense principles regarding human cognition, including the distinctionbetween beliefs and desires, and the link between such propositional attitudes and behavior.This framework is challenged by eliminativists (see Eliminative…
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December 7, 2023
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First principles

The initial and firm rules, or axioms, with which a philosophy begins, either as assumptionsor as believed truths. https://youtube.com/shorts/vZLJr8mtKN8?feature=share
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First-order validity

An argument is valid when a sentence is logically true by way of truth-functional connectivedefinitions, identity, and quantifiers. https://youtube.com/shorts/CZnU2xWzcRg?feature=share
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First-order logic

A system of logic that includes propositions (sentences), truth-functional connectives,predicates, and quantifiers. https://youtube.com/shorts/ypbGNbsNLQg?feature=share
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First-order consequence

A statement that follows from premises exclusively by way of truth-functional connectivedefinitions, identity, and quantifiers. https://youtube.com/shorts/hlX88ZKexlg?feature=share
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Final cause

In Aristotle’s teleology, the cause that defines the end, purpose, or (proper) function of athing. It is one of Aristotle’s four causes. https://youtube.com/shorts/7hBG_amdgJo?feature=share
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Fideism

The view that faith is independent of, or even opposed to, reason. https://youtube.com/shorts/aH6w5Ay8tH0?feature=share
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Fatalism

The view that specific events are pre-determined; historically associated with the ancientGreek view embodied by the Fates, three goddesses who control human birth and life, andmore generally associated with the…
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December 7, 2023