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The study of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
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transcendental
Philosophy; General philosophy
Relating to the grounds of possible experience e.g. Kant thought that most of our pure rational knowledge is synthetic or priori, or transcendental. Thus Kant believed that ...
transcendent
Philosophy; General philosophy
Going beyond any possible experience as opposed to immanent.
teleological
Philosophy; General philosophy
A teleological ethics is one that claims that it is the consequences (or goals-fostered-by) of actions that determine their moral worth. Mill’s utilitarianism (“act so as to ...
traditional logic
Philosophy; General philosophy
Traditional logic was first developed by Aristotle and systematized (somewhat differently) by the medieval school persons. It was thought to be all there was to logic by most ...
semantics
Philosophy; General philosophy
The characterization, for a natural or artificial, language of relations between sentences such as sameness in meaning, semantic consequences (i.e. That if one sentence is true, ...
tautology
Philosophy; General philosophy
A non-atomic, or molecular, proposition that is true no matter what the assignment of truth value to the atomic propositions that it contains. Example: “p or not-p”. This ...
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