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A Must Have Book For Every Philosophy Student
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Type-token distinction

A token is an individual instance of a type. For example, two speakers make distinct utterances (tokens) of the same sentence (type). https://youtube.com/shorts/bdzeQiocvQ0?feature=share
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December 11, 2023
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Turing Test

A computer is said to pass the Turing Test if a human subject is unable to distinguish its output from that of another human subject on the basis of conversational…
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Truth-functional connective

A logical connective whose truth value is determined by the truth value of the constituent statement(s) and the meaning of the connective itself. https://youtube.com/shorts/ebqlKPM0lxo?feature=share
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December 11, 2023
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Truth value

The truth or falsity of an atomic, simple, or compound statement. https://youtube.com/shorts/jk9CLlJxtnM?feature=share
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December 11, 2023
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Truth table

A method of demonstrating how a statement’s truth value is built up from an atomic or simple sentence and the operation of the (main) connective. https://youtube.com/shorts/Qq98IsjJpG4?feature=share
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December 11, 2023
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Truth of reason

In traditional rationalism, a belief that can be justified solely by appeal to intuition or deduction from premises based upon intuition. Arithmetic and geometry were, for the rationalists as for…
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Transcendental ego

Kant’s term for the basic logical fact of one’s own self-consciousness. Also: That which is necessary for a unified, empirical self-consciousness, and which synthesizes sensations in concert with the categories…
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December 11, 2023
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Transcendental deduction

Immanuel Kant’s (1724-1804) argument for basic a prior concepts or categories that contribute to the constitution of knowledge. https://youtube.com/shorts/2eQBivsCVnI?feature=share
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December 11, 2023
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Transcendental argument

An argument in support of a conclusion on the grounds that it provides a necessary prerequisite for some other (uncontroversial) state of affairs. https://youtube.com/shorts/EMSvJ7cKt0w?feature=share
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Transcendent

That which is independent of empirical, finite existence; contrasted with immanent. https://youtube.com/shorts/NBahpArmi_c?feature=share
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December 11, 2023