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The study of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
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refers
Philosophy; General philosophy
Philosophers use a number of terms for the relationship that holds between singular terms and the objects they designate or stand for. Refers is used both for the relation ...
extrinsic
Philosophy; General philosophy
An extrinsic property is one that an object has partly in virtue of its relations to other things and their properties. A thing could lose such a property without really ...
mutual awareness
Philosophy; General philosophy
Two people are in a state of mutual awareness when they are not only aware of one another, but also each aware of the other’s awareness. For instance, suppose we are both ...
omnipotence
Philosophy; General philosophy
Omnipotence is one of the traditional attributes of God. In common usage, to say that God is omnipotent is to say that God is “all powerful” or that God can (in some sense) ...
moral luck
Philosophy; General philosophy
As Thomas Nagel uses the term in his article of the same name, a person is subject to moral luck whenever he or she is still treated as a candidate for praise or blame even ...
means-end analysis
Philosophy; General philosophy
To give a means-end analysis of some concept is to define it as a particular way of achieving some goal or purpose. Thus giving a means-end analysis involves two parts: a ...
Tautology
Philosophy; General philosophy
A tautology in logic is a formula that is always true on any valuation or interpretation of its terms. They are also sometimes called valid formulas (not to be confused with a ...
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