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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…
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December 10, 2023
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Synthetic a priori

Kant’s term for a judgment whose truth is not derived from the logical structure or meaning of the sentence (synthetic) but is also necessary and independent of experience (a priori).…
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December 10, 2023
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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
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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…
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Syllogism

A three-line argument consisting of two premises and a conclusion. The Categorical syllogism, Modus ponens, Modus tollens, and Disjunctive syllogisms are all examples ofthis style of argument. https://youtube.com/shorts/a7WdaCGb2WI?feature=share
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Supervenience

A set of properties of one type (such as mental properties) are said to be supervenient on a set of properties of another type (such as brain states) if and…
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Superaltern

On the Aristotelian or traditional square of opposition, the relation between a universal claimand its corresponding particular (subaltern). https://youtube.com/shorts/ZAf-BP92auc?feature=share
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Sufficient condition

That which ensures an outcome. A condition is sufficient when its appearance guarantees an event. https://youtube.com/shorts/srQshrW8w14?feature=share
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