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The study of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
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efficient causation
Philosophy; General philosophy
Efficient causation is one of the four types of causation that Aristotle distinguished. Of these four types, efficient causation is the sort of causation that best fits ...
asymmetric attitudes
Philosophy; General philosophy
To say that our attitudes toward two things are asymmetrical is simply to say that they are different. The asymmetric attitudes arise as a particular puzzle when the things ...
eternalism and presentism
Philosophy; General philosophy
Of course dinosaurs don’t exist right now, but do they just plain exist? Again, of course my great-great-grandson doesn’t exist at this moment, but does he exist ...
a posteriori and a priori
Philosophy; General philosophy
A posteriori knowledge is based on experience, on observation of how things are in the world of changing things. A priori knowledge is based on reasoning rather ...
analytic and synthetic
Philosophy; General philosophy
Analytic statements are those that are true (or false) in virtue of the way the ideas or meanings in them fit together. A standard example is “No bachelor is married.” This is ...
cosmos
Philosophy; General philosophy
The cosmos is the universe considered as an integrated orderly system. Sometimes the cosmos is the orderly part of a larger whole, the other part being chaos. Any account of ...
Rules of Inference
Philosophy; General philosophy
The rules of valid inference are a set of laws by which the syntax of statements in a system of logic, such as propositional or first-order logic, may be manipulated. Rules of ...
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