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The study of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
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closure of a system
Philosophy; General philosophy
A system with at least one closed term is closed iff At/x implies (x)Ax for each closed term t and each 1-wff A. (A 1-wff is a wff with exactly one free variable.) Informally, the ...
closure of a wff
Philosophy; General philosophy
In predicate logic, the binding of all free variables from a wff by placing them within the scope of suitable quantifiers. A closed wff is considered its own closure. The closure ...
Arthur Hugh Clough
Philosophy; General philosophy
(1819-1861) British poet. Though now little read Clough's verse was very highly esteemed in his day. Carlyle, who knew him, says that he was "the most high-principled man I have ...
cofinal
Philosophy; General philosophy
A function into an ordinal is cofinal if its range is unbounded in its codomain.
cogent argument
Philosophy; General philosophy
An inductive argument is cogent if it is both strong (logically correct) and its premises are all true (factually correct). "Cogent" is to induction as "sound" is to deduction.
cogito ergo sum
Philosophy; General philosophy
Descartes' crucial claim T think therefore I am' provides a standard of certainty for the rest of his philosophy and leads on to the claim that what he is is a thinking thing.
cognition
Philosophy; General philosophy
Cognition means acquiring knowledge of the objective world. The central concept in the Marxist understanding of Cognition is practice, which is the criterion of truth for Marxism. ...
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