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…
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).…
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
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…
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
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…
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