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Philosophy
The study of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
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normalization
Philosophy; General philosophy
Values and behavior are normalized when they become stable within a group of people, generally by excluding the alternatives. Normalization is likely to occur when the interests ...
truth-values
Philosophy; General philosophy
Values, such as true and false. There could be others, but those are the only two noncontroversial truth-values.
preferable
Philosophy; General philosophy
What a person would rather have than something else, or what a person desires or values more than something else. For example, many people agree that it's preferable to experience ...
metaphysical impossibility
Philosophy; General philosophy
What can't be true or exist concerning reality itself assuming that the laws of nature could have been different. Metaphysically impossible statements refer to “what is not true ...
sense
Philosophy; General philosophy
What Gottlob Frege called “sinn” to refer to the meaning or description of a word. For example, “the morning star” and “the evening star” both have different senses, but refer to ...
prescriptive
Philosophy; General philosophy
What is advisable or preferable. For example, “you shouldn't steal from people” is prescriptive. “Prescriptive” is often equated with “normative” and it's often contrasted with ...
objective right and wrong
Philosophy; General philosophy
What is right or wrong considering few (or no) constraints of a person's knowledge. What is considered to be objectively right or wrong is often thought to be based on the actual ...
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