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The study of terms and their use.

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For example, is "a bachelor is an unmarried man" a definition or tautology? The context is this: "Some philosophers of science have argued that 'survival of the fittest' is a tautology (...
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For instance, say that when doing a math problem, two sign errors are committed in multiplication to the effect that the rules of arithmetic are broken, but the calculation, despite the violation of ...
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The (outdated) Meiklejohn translation of Kant's first critical treatise features the use of the word "intuition" to refer, not to school costs, but something that is contrasted with the ...
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I understand (or thought I understood) Popper's falsification principle. For a statement to be meaningful it has to be falsifiable. That I can get on board with. But then I looked at it in regards to ...
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I know it has been an age old topic of discussion, 'can we imagine nothing', 'why something rather than nothing', but recently I stumbled upon this thought that 'absolute nothing' isn't even ...
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Something that I've noticed is that, although it seems relatively rare for philosophers to make substantive distinctions between "Morals" and "Ethics," this distinction is ...
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I have encountered some difficulty in distinguishing between the concepts of syncretism and synthesis. My understanding (based on a brief study of dialectal thinking) is that synthesis constitutes the ...
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So, usually in logics and mathematics in general, both concepts are introduced. In set theory a function can be defined as a triple of two sets and a relation (which itself is defined as a pair of ...
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I am reading the book "Type theory and formal proof" by Rob Nederpelt, Herman Geuvers. Chapter 2 "Simply typed lambda calculus" Section 2.2 "Simple types" says "We ...
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Dictionaries translate (in Stoic context) this word as «indifferent things» that is, neither good nor evil. In this meaning they also say «οὐδέτερος». Epictetus «The discourses» Book 1, Chapter XX: ...
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I want to know can it be defined objectively what is inspiration and plagiarism in context of philosophical ideas . Because a person can just copy idea of others and just explain it trough different ...
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I’d like to discuss a concept. Suppose we say: “We infer its truth because it is in accordance with human experience.” Is there a philosophical term for this idea of being “in accordance with human ...
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When your science teacher first teaches you temperatures in real numbers, I don’t understand this as modeling. Or using real numbers for distance in intro physics. Things before we have used math to ...
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I read it somewhere on line but can no longer place it. Example given there was of a cow that instead of cow (word) means cow (thing), cow (word) means negation of all things except cow. Or something ...
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Mathematical Logic Revised Edition 1951 on page 306 at the beginning of §59 has: "Just as the theorems of logic comprised the ponentials of ponentials of ... axioms of quantification and axioms ...
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