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The study of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
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Necessity
Philosophy; General philosophy
Necessity is a non-truth-functional operator in modal logic. It is used to indicate that something is necessarily the case. The symbol □ is used to indicate neccessity in modal ...
Normative
Philosophy; General philosophy
In philosophy, the adjective normative is used to describe statements that are based on values. A normative statement is a claim about how things ought to be. Normative statements ...
John Rawls
Philosophy; General philosophy
John Rawls (1921–2002) was an American political philosopher, and a professor at Cornell, MIT and Harvard. Rawls is most famous for A Theory of Justice, in which he argues for ...
Parallelism
Philosophy; General philosophy
Parallelism, or psychophysical parallelism (meaning that mind and body are parallel) is a form of dualism which denies any interaction between mind and body. Parallelism is a ...
Joint Denial
Philosophy; General philosophy
The joint denial is a truth-functional operator in logic which is equivalent to the English wording “neither… nor”. It is used to state that both conjoined propositions are ...
Possible Worlds in Modal Logic
Philosophy; General philosophy
In modal logic, the concept of possible worlds is used to provide a semantics for the modal states of possibility and necessity. Semantics for modal logic using possible worlds ...
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy; General philosophy
Philosophy of mind is the branch of philosophy which deals with the mind and its properties, including conciousness, mental processes and events. Philosophy of mind often ...
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