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The study of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
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Modus tollens
Philosophy; General philosophy
Modus tollendo tollens, usually simply called modus tollens or MT is a valid argument form in logic. It is also known as "denying the consequent". The form of modus tollens is: ...
Biconditional
Philosophy; General philosophy
The biconditional or material equivalence operator is used to symbolize “if and only if” statements in symbolic logic. The biconditional is a truth-functional operator in ...
Moral Realism
Philosophy; General philosophy
Moral realism is the meta-ethical position that there are moral truths independent of subjective opinion. Moral realism is a cognitivist approach to morality, in that it states ...
behaviorism
Philosophy; General philosophy
Behaviorism is used in somewhat different senses in psychology and philosophy. In psychology, behaviorism was a twentieth-century movement that maintained that the study of ...
consequentialism
Philosophy; General philosophy
Consequentialism is a view about what makes it right or wrong to do something. It maintains that the rightness of an action is determined by the goodness or badness of ...
analytical philosophy
Philosophy; General philosophy
The term analytical philosophy is often used for a style of doing philosophy that was dominant throughout most of the twentieth century in Great Britain, North ...
determinism
Philosophy; General philosophy
Determinism is the doctrine that every event, including every intentional action of a human being, is determined by prior causes. This is usually thought to imply that there ...
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