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Utilitarianism

A moral theory that evaluates the rightness of an action in proportion to the overall pleasure or happiness produced by it; conversely, the wrongness of an action is determined inproportion…
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Upanishads

Vedic texts in Hindu thought and religion. (See also Vedas.) https://youtube.com/shorts/LtEUmatsYeY?feature=share
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Unsound

The evaluation term for an argument that is either invalid or valid with at least one false premise. https://youtube.com/shorts/CkFSDnbDplY?feature=share
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Universalizability

Kant’s term for testing a maxim; that is, a subjective rule of action that guides our actions or that ensures that everyone is equally obligated, morally, under morally similar conditions.…
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Universal introduction

In symbolic logic, a valid inference in a system of quantifier rules. A universal claim is derived from the assumption of a hypothetical or arbitrarily chosen name (object) at the…
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Universal elimination

In symbolic logic, a valid inference in a system of quantifier rules. In a proof sequence, a universal quantifier is removed, and the variables bound by it are replaced with…
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Underdetermination

A theory is said to be under determined by evidence if that evidence would provide the same degree of confirmation for a rival theory; in particular, a scientific theory that…
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Uncogent argument

An evaluation term in inductive logic for an argument that is either weak or is strong but has at least one false premise. (See also Inductive argument, Strong argument, and…
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Unalienable rights

Those rights with which we were born; rights that cannot be taken away by another person,group, or government. https://youtube.com/shorts/cjLEiLTQDEY?feature=share
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