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(P or not P) is a necessary truth | (P or not P) is the law of the excluded middle | (P or not P) is the law of non-contradiction | 10,731 |
consent | speech act of agreement | consensus | 5,672 |
Structured Propositions | Propositions that have parts or constituents | propositions embedded within a structure | 7,012 |
intentionality | focus of consciousness on the world as a condition of thinking | heading towards some goal | 11,852 |
Aristotelian ethics | Virtue ethics | Being good in virtue of your technical ability | 2,242 |
Luck egalitarianism | Political philosophy that seeks to nullify the effects of brute luck | A political philosophy view that considers the possibility of achieving an egalitarian society slim or “lucky” | 8,765 |
the conclusion of the violinist argument | even if fetuses are persons, they do not have a right to use the mother's body | the conclusion that playing the violin is impermissible | 7,004 |
X is counterlegal, in the context of the philosophy of science | X is contra-nomic, in the context of the philosophy of science | X is counterfactual, in the context of the philosophy of science | 2,611 |
Truth | Veridicality | False | 5,649 |
Idealism | The theory that the world is made of mental things | Perfectionism | 2,576 |
tacit | unstated | quiet | 9,234 |
a dialogue of Plato which discusses the nature of friendship | Lysis | Plato and friends | 4,195 |
Skinner box | Laboratory apparatus used to block out external stimuli so as to train animals via positive and negative reinforcement in a controlled environment | Skin box | 8,090 |
Meno's paradox | An argument from Plato for the idea that genuine rational inquiry is impossible | The problem of finding Meno | 8,359 |
mereological extensionalism | no things compose more than one thing | mereological nihilism | 11,488 |
Ned Block | Author of "The border between seeing and thinking" | Cinder block | 10,958 |
Resemblance theory | To be F is to resemble the paradigm example of f | Representation theory | 2,767 |
anti-individualism | externalism | altruism | 1,623 |
racialist concept of race | theory of races as essential, biological categories | racism | 5,772 |
Pittsburgh school | Group of analytic philosophers, such as McDowell and Brandom, who are influenced by Sellars | Philadelphia University | 6,448 |
Realism about mathematical entities | Mathematical entities do exist | A common sense view about mathematics | 7,572 |
Derridean Deconstruction | Literary-hermeneutical technique developed by Derrida | French, architectural scheme of controlled demolition named after the philosopher, Derrida | 10,679 |
Epistemic duty | What one ought to do epistemically | The duty of being epistemic | 8,891 |
Assertion | Statement or claim | A subjective statement | 532 |
Disjunction | Logical addition | Conjunction | 4,402 |
Berkeley’s idealism | Immaterialism | Idealism | 7,781 |
Frege's puzzle | A problem about identity statements and propositional attitudes | The problem of discovering the true identity of Gottlob Frege | 474 |
intutionism | the belief that mathematical entities are mental constructs | the art of developing intuitions | 7,262 |
gruesome property | gerrymandered property | disgusting property | 1,539 |
autographic | unrepeatable | celebrity | 11,514 |
Sortition | Lottery | Sorting | 10,018 |
Plato's metaphor for the soul | Plato uses a depiction of a chimera like being consisting of a beast, a lion, and a human to describe the parts of the soul. | Plato uses a depiction of a chimera like being consisting of a kingly, timocracy, democratic, and tyrannical soul to describe the parts of a soul. | 10,740 |
evening star | morning star | nighttime celebrity | 8,710 |
Intellectual intuition | Immediate apprehension | Intellectual knowledge | 10,077 |
His description of colors was not Edenic. | His description of colors in his representation of reality did not match underlying features of reality. | His description of colors was beautiful and perfect. | 6,393 |
Relational views of intentionality | Views of intentionality on which intentionality is a relation to a distinctly existing content | Relations to views of intentionality | 5,110 |
natural | not made by humans | organic | 1,130 |
Cartesian | Dualist | Coordinate | 1,103 |
paleoconservative | reactionary conservatism | aiming to conserve the ancient | 9,225 |
Analytic functionalism | a priori functionalism | investigative actions | 6,320 |
Error theory | The view that all normative claims are false | A theory of how errors come about | 1,136 |
biological essentialism | the view that categories such as gender and race are purely biological in nature | the view that a person's biological properties, such as their DNA, are essential to their nature | 3,126 |
basic belief | foundational belief | simple belief | 1,648 |
rationalism | anti-empiricism | scepticism | 11,435 |
the second critique | Critique of Practical Reason | the second treatise | 5,440 |
direct realism | naive realism | reality | 5,646 |
knowledge closure | if you know that P, and you know that P implies Q, then you know that Q | justification closure | 2,240 |
compatiblism | the view that free acts can have been determined to happen | the view that acting freely is compatible with doing what you want | 11,367 |
hypothetical | conditional | not actual | 3,864 |
Bf Skinner | Burrhus Frederic Skinner | Boyfriend skinner | 8,273 |
Prudent | Wise | Shrewd | 6,766 |
desert | what one is owed | hot, dry, arid, sandy environment | 5,911 |
presentist | someone who believes that only the present exists | someone who urges us to make the most of the present time | 2,875 |
induction | hypernym for several methods of developing and proving general statements about a particular, usually empirical subject area | a method in philosophy of language that proves a statement with final certainty | 148 |
time dilation | phenomenon where time appears to pass more slowly for an object moving relative to a stationary observer, predicted by special relativity | time | 9,656 |
Science requires natural kinds | Science depends on nature having joints | Science depends on common politeness | 5,888 |
Reference | Meaning | Reverence list | 7,366 |
intrinsic | inherent | essential | 51 |
Hallucination | an perceptual state where any object is involved but that indiscriminable from veridical perception | Seeing something that is not real | 8,145 |
Transcendence and immanence | Being-in-itself and being-for-itself | Transcendental deduction | 2,924 |
Fairness | Reciprocity | Equality | 4,030 |
proposal | invitation | wedding | 7,400 |
Intellectual courage | acting to promote epistemic goods despite significant risk of harm | being courageous about displaying your intellectual skills | 6,840 |
Conception of the good | Account of what gives value to life | Impregnation of the virtuous | 4,111 |
The ethical dimension of games, according to philosophers of sport | ethics issues generally viewed as imported from the cultural context of the game-play | the binding and absolute rules | 11,850 |
Linear order | Total order | Partial order | 6,664 |
Monism | Metaphysical theory claiming that there is only on substance | Theory of money | 945 |
embodied cognition | the view that many faculties of cognition are influenced by or dependent on our bodies | cognitivism | 8,516 |
Communism | Socialism | Anarchy | 6,611 |
extension | that to which a word or phrase applies | telephone number | 7,449 |
supervenience | no difference in supervening properties without a difference in subvening properties | the view that metaphysics is superbly convenient | 2,057 |
the formula of humanity | the second formulation of the categorical imperative | autonomy and heteronomy | 7,500 |
vague | allowing for borderline cases | unclear | 768 |
Immanuel Kant | Kant | Aristotle | 4,263 |
cap | intersection | hat | 5,602 |
justified a priori | justified by pure reason | justified earlier in time | 2,978 |
belief-credence dualism | the view that we have both beliefs and credences and neither attitude is reducible to the other | the view that the mind, which has beliefs and credences, is fundamentally different from the brain | 1,963 |
tacit belief | implicit knowledge | implicit bias | 11,445 |
metaphysics | a branch of philosophy studying fundamental reality and its categories | metaethics | 8,424 |
a priori | without experience | ad hominem | 153 |
Planck constant | A measure of the smallest quantum of action that can be observed in the universe | Boltzmann constant | 9,224 |
primitive | unanalyzable | simple | 1,101 |
anarchism | political philosophy that advocates for a society without government | government | 9,521 |
identity | the relation of being the same thing as (something) | a valued status by which one especially wishes to be known | 11,140 |
Objective existence is counterfactual qua truth in at least one possible world different from the actual. | Possible worlds exist objectively. | Possible-world semantics is incoherent. | 5,706 |
the undecidable sentence | the sentence neither true nor false | the human mind | 7,106 |
Metasemantics | Foundational Semantics | Metalanguage | 337 |
Explanandum | That which is to be accounted for | Explanans | 9,419 |
Brainstorming | Generating ideas | Mind mapping | 9,448 |
Ontological commitment | What kind of entities exist according to a given theory | Dedication to the study of ontology | 1,269 |
Propositions | What declarative sentences denote | Proposals | 5,104 |
on Twin Earth | on a planet that is a duplicate of Earth | on a planet that is full of twins | 9,921 |
B-theory | The assumption that there is no temporal flow, though a temporal ordering does exist | McTaggart's influential theory that the past comes before the present, and the present precedes the future, as opposed to the tenseless A-theory | 1,442 |
Anselm's ontological argument | An attempt to deduce the existence of God from the definition of God | Huemer's ontological proof of moral realism | 9,862 |
Indeterminancy of reference | Referential inscrutability | Object | 4,360 |
non-cognitivism | sentences about morality do not have propositional content that can be evaluated for truth and falsity | philosophy should be based on emotions, rather than hard logical reasoning | 11,834 |
compatibilism | full determined free choice | the view that we can hold two incompatible notions in mind at once | 3,474 |
mind-body dualism | substance dualism | property dualism | 7,246 |
Jaegwon Kim wrote "Mind in a Physical World" | The author of "physicalism or something near enough" wrote "mind in a physical world" | Jaguar Kim wrote "mind in a physical world" | 11,061 |
substance | thing | drug | 6,795 |